Table 3.

Correlation between liver Zn and Fe versus MMPs, TIMPs, RECK, TBARS, ROS and GSH.

	Zn		Fe
	r/rs	p	r/rs	p
MMP-2	−0.146 rs	ns	0.366 rs	0.023
MMP-9	0.222 rs	ns	0.508 rs	0.002
TIMP-1	0.348 r	0.040	−0.526 r	0.0008
TIMP-2	0.263 rs	ns	−0.559 rs	0.0003
RECK	−0.581 rs	0.001	0.360 rs	0.047
TBARS	−0.485 rs	0.022	0.474 rs	0.022
ROS	−0.478 rs	0.028	0.518 rs	0.013
GSH	0.416 rs	ns	−0.606 rs	0.005

r: Pearson’s correlation coefficient; rs: Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient; ns: p value not significant.