Table 2 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients among the activity of exoglycosidases in the blood and other body fluids of the deceased who were (A) and were not (C) intoxicated by the ethanol.

From: Activity of exoglycosidases in blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, and vitreous humor in individuals who died from ethyl alcohol poisoning

Variable

Sample

C group

Blood

A group

Blood

MAN

FUC

GAL

GLU

MAN

FUC

GAL

GLU

MAN

Blood

0.694***

0.787***

0.766***

0.441*

0.426*

0.609**

Vitreous humor

0.019

 − 0.212

0.091

 − 0.055

0.457*

 − 0.135

 − 0.040

0.173

Cerebrospinal fluid

0.357

0.551**

0.547**

0.447*

0.219

 − 0.214

 − 0.076

0.217

Urine

0.439*

0.188

0.510*

0.438*

 − 0.186

 − 0.510*

 − 0.494*

 − 0.160

FUC

Blood

0.694***

0.774***

0.681***

0.441*

0.885***

0.636**

Vitreous humor

0.381*

0.149

0.305

0.213

0.249

 − 0.260

 − 0.178

 − 0.071

Cerebrospinal fluid

0.218

0.523**

0.473*

0.309

0.171

 − 0.012

0.120

0.321

Urine

0.510*

0.241

0.491*

0.478*

 − 0.110

 − 0.599**

 − 0.514*

 − 0.249

GAL

Blood

0.787***

0.774***

0.851***

0.426*

0.885***

0.675***

Vitreous humor

-0.297

0.139

0.071

 − 0.074

 − 0.080

0.574**

0.556**

0.217

Cerebrospinal fluid

0.162

0.468*

0.427*

0.380

0.057

 − 0.142

 − 0.005

0.195

Urine

0.328

 − 0.074

0.046

0.215

 − 0.290

 − 0.239

 − 0.260

 − 0.100

GLU

Blood

0.766***

0.681***

0.851***

0.609**

0.636**

0.675***

Vitreous humor

0.444*

0.104

0.293

0.205

0.344

 − 0.380

 − 0.223

0.205

Cerebrospinal fluid

0.278

0.454*

0.504**

0.390*

0.294

 − 0.007

0.152

0.285

Urine

0.388

0.054

0.409

0.485*

 − 0.087

 − 0.531*

 − 0.512*

 − 0.187

  1. A the deceased with ethanol intoxication, C the deceased with no ethanol intoxication, FUC α-fucosidase, GAL β-galactosidase, GLU β-glucuronidase, MAN α-mannosidase.
  2. The asterisks above the bolded value mean statistically meaningful correlations: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.