Endocannabinoid Receptors Gene Expression in Morbidly Obese Women with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Table 2

Correlations between the expression of CB1 and CB2 and genes related to fatty acid synthesis, to fatty acid oxidation, uptake and transport, inflammation, and adipokines in liver from morbidly obese women.

	CB1		CB2
	𝑟	𝑃 value	𝑟	𝑃 value
De novo synthesis of Fatty acids
ChREBP	0.185	0.198	0.072	0.603
SREBP1c	0.074	0.590	0.031	0.816
LxRα	0.052	0.709	0.126	0.346
FxR	0.079	0.571	0.095	0.482
ACC1	0.207	0.126	0.257	0.047
FAS	0.164	0.232	0.182	0.167
Fatty acid oxidation
PPARα	−0.354	0.037	0.155	0.347
Fatty acid uptake and transport
PPARγ	0.161	0.240	0.600	<0.001
CD36	−0.028	0.846	0.157	0.257
FABP4	0.105	0.460	0.040	0.776
Inflammation
IL6	0.116	0.431	0.288	0.040
TNFα	−0.018	0.902	0.293	0.033
CRP	−0.210	0.140	−0.002	0.988
PPARδ	−0.077	0.576	0.126	0.342
Adipokines
Adiponectin	0.031	0.846	0.625	<0.001
Resistin	−0.058	0.701	0.506	<0.001

𝑃<0.05 are considered statistically significant.