Can the TLR-4-Mediated Signaling Pathway Be “A Key Inflammatory Promoter for Sporadic TAA”?

Table 6

Correlations between the number of CD3+CD4+CD8+ CD68+CD20+ cells observed in aorta samples from patients bearing combined risk genotype and the histological abnormalities observed through histopathological and immunohistochemical assays and Tunel testing and levels of IL-6, TNF-𝛼, CRP, and MMP-2 and -9.

Variables	Correlations	𝑃 values*
Medionecrosis of grade III	0.278	0.02
Cystic-medial change of grade III	0.346	0.001
Elastic fragmentation of grade III	0.467	0.0001
Plurifocal Medial apoptosis	0.333	0.001
Elevated MMP-9 amounts	0.379	0.001
IL-6	0.379	0.003
TNF-𝛼	0.445	0.001
CRP	0.467	0.002
MMP-2	0.578	0.001
MMP-9	0.502	0.001

∗By nonparametrical Spearman correlation test.