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Table 2 Results from correlation analyses between age of donors and expression levels of proteins and amino acids

From: Enzymes in the glutamate-glutamine cycle in the anterior cingulate cortex in postmortem brain of subjects with autism

Ā Ā 

KGA

LGA

GS

GDH1

GDH2

GFAP

NSE

Glu

Gln

Glu/Gln

Total sample (nā€‰=ā€‰20)

Pearson r correlation coefficient

-.14

.10

-.13

-.04

.20

-.25

.22

.09

.35

-.32

Ā 

P- value

.56

.68

.58

.87

.39

.29

.35

.72

.13

.17

Control (nā€‰=ā€‰13)

Pearson r correlation coefficient

-.24

.00

-.30

-.07

-.07

-.44

.37

.34

.54

-.48

Ā 

P- value

.42

.98

.32

.81

.80

.12

.21

.25

.06

.09

Autism (nā€‰=ā€‰7)

Pearson r correlation coefficient

.22

-.13

-.05

.05

.29

.14

.56

-.05

.07

-.16

Ā 

P-value

.66

.78

.91

.90

.56

.78

.20

.90

.90

.71

  1. Abbreviations: GDH1, glutamate dehydrogenase 1; GDH2, glutamate dehydrogenase 2; GFAP, glial fibrillary acidic protein; Gln, glutamine; Glu, glutamate; GS, glutamine synthetase; KGA, kidney-type glutaminase; LGA, liver-type glutaminase; NSE, neuron-specific enolase.