SMAD4 Protein Expression Is Downregulated in Ileal Epithelial Cells from Patients with Crohn’s Disease with Significant Inverse Correlation to Disease Activity

Table 2

Correlations.

	value	Correlation coefficient
Luminal SMAD4
SES-CD	0.001	−0.530
Histopathological activity	0.013	−0.399
Basal SMAD4
SES-CD	0.190	−0.217
Histopathological activity	0.281	−0.179
SMAD7
SES-CD	0.143	0.284
Histopathological activity	0.294	0.205

Correlation of disease activity to SMAD4 and SMAD7. Spearman’s rho correlation was made on the entire cohort.