Table 3.
Correlations a between indices assessed in post mortem brain of patients with multiple sclerosis
| Pearson r* (n regions/n patients) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD | FA | Trmyelin | Axonal count | |
| FA | −0.62 (51/16) | |||
| Trmyelin | 0.68 (45/15) | −0.79 (45/15) | ||
| Axonal count | −0.66 (44/15) | 0.70 (44/15) | −0.81 (44/15) | |
| Trgliosis | −0.55 (45/15) | 0.50 (45/15) | −0.51 (45/15) | 0.62 (44/15) |
MD=mean diffusivity; FA=fractional anisotropy; Trmyelin=transmittance of slides stained for Luxol fast blue; Trgliosis=transmittance of slides immunostained for glial fibrillary acidic protein.
a
Within-patient Pearson correlation coefficients.
*
p Value of all correlations was <0.01