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

Table 4

Results of the simple linear regression between each pair of lgM isotypes of the food proteins and brain proteins in MS 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.

IgM	MBP (OD)	MOG (OD)	S100B (OD)	Human AQP4 (OD)
Soy AQP4	0.9502 (<0.0001)	0.9290 (<0.0001)	0.9475 (<0.0001)	0.8887 (<0.0001)
Corn AQP4	0.7823 (<0.0001)	0.8582 (<0.0001)	0.7788 (<0.0001)	0.8346 (<0.0001)
Tomato AQP4	0.8771 (<0.0001)	0.9297 (<0.0001)	0.8668 (<0.0001)	0.9089 (<0.0001)
Spinach AQP4	0.8549 (<0.0001)	0.9184 (<0.0001)	0.8567 (<0.0001)	0.8732 (<0.0001)