The Inflammasome Signaling Pathway Is Actively Regulated and Related to Myocardial Damage in Coronary Thrombi from Patients with STEMI

Table 2

Relation to peak troponin T. Spearman coefficients of correlations (rho) between the markers measured at the time of PCI and peak troponin T.

	Genes in thrombus		Genes in circ. leuk.		Circulating marker
	Rho		Rho		Rho
TLR4	0.455	0.013	0.438	0.011
NLRP3	0.468	0.024	0.420	0.015
Caspase1	0.210	0.273	0.321	0.069
IL-1β	0.199	0.292	0.394	0.023
IL-18	0.159	0.447	0.310	0.079	-0.084	0.641
IL-6	0.101	0.639	-0.422	0.015	0.184	0.307
IL-6R	0.434	0.019	0.197	0.271	-0.048	0.793
gp130	-0.380	0.050	-0.047	0.794	0.071	0.694

italicized as sign of statistical significance.