Detection of Antibodies against Human and Plant Aquaporins in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Table 3

Results of the simple linear regression between each pair of lgA isotypes of the food proteins and brain proteins in RRMS patients. The first number in each cell presents corresponding Pearson’s correlation coefficient and the second number in parentheses presents its value. Small values (less than 0.05) are marked in bold. Note that values of these regressions are the squares of Pearson’s correlation coefficients.

IgA	MBP (OD)	MOG (OD)	S100B (OD)	Human AQP4 (OD)
Soy AQP4	0.6651 (<0.0001)	0.9281 (<0.0001)	0.9419 (<0.0001)	0.7421 (<0.0001)
Corn AQP4	0.7035 (<0.0001)	0.9317 (<0.0001)	0.8868 (<0.0001)	0.6903 (<0.0001)
Tomato AQP4	0.6727 (<0.0001)	0.8862 (<0.0001)	0.8700 (<0.0001)	0.7692 (<0.0001)
Spinach AQP4	0.5136 (<0.0001)	0.6677 (<0.0001)	0.6758 (<0.0001)	0.6608 (<0.0001)