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

Table 3

Relation to time from symptom to PCI. Spearman coefficients of correlations (rho) between the markers measured at the time of PCI and time from symptom to PCI.

	Genes in thrombus		Genes in circ. leuk.		Circulating marker
	Rho		Rho		Rho
TLR4	0.079	0.684	-0.271	0.127
NLRP3	0.031	0.890	-0.165	0.360
Caspase 1	-0.032	0.868	-0.126	0.486
IL-1β	0.137	0.469	-0.147	0.414
IL-18	-0.265	0.200	-0.068	0.708	0.259	0.146
IL-6	0.127	0.553	-0.385	0.027	0.232	0.195
IL-6R	0.142	0.462	-0.265	0.136	-0.039	0.830
gp130	-0.128	0.526	-0.129	0.476	0.291	0.101

italicized as a sign of statistical significance.