Journal of Investigative Dermatology

TABLE 1B

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Quantification of Eight Tissue Kallikreins in the Stratum Corneum and Sweat

Nahoko Komatsu, Brian Tsai, Michael Sidiropoulos, Kiyofumi Saijoh, Michael A Levesque, Kazuhiko Takehara and Eleftherios P Diamandis

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Table 1b. Quantification of kallikreins in sweat from different body regions by ELISA

Sweat (ng/mg of total protein)
  Region
  Face Axilla Abdomen
hK MeanplusminusSD % MeanplusminusSD % MeanplusminusSD %
Chymotrypsin-like hK
 hK7345plusminus228 393plusminus306 434plusminus308 
  M      
  F219plusminus165 165plusminus155 262plusminus227 
       
Trypsin-like hK
 hK8      
  M334plusminus20758.0255plusminus11252.3234plusminus9261.0##
  F379plusminus23069.062plusminus49* 1 65.7227plusminus11567.6
 hK11      
  M134plusminus6423.4147plusminus7130.1100plusminus7626.2
  F100plusminus8118.212plusminus5.4* 2 12.775plusminus3122.4
 hK5      
  M8.8plusminus2.31.545plusminus27* 3 9.218plusminus124.8
  F17plusminus113.114plusminus1314.322plusminus206.5
 hK10      
  M41plusminus18* 4 7.221plusminus184.313plusminus103.4#
  F31plusminus23* 5 5.74.0plusminus3.44.25.7plusminus3.11.7
 hK6      
  M32plusminus15* 5 5.67.8plusminus4.01.610plusminus5.52.7#
  F12plusminus1.72.31.4plusminus1.31.43.9plusminus1.51.2
 hK13      
  M18plusminus21* 4 3.27.0plusminus5.21.43.6plusminus4.20.9
  F7.3plusminus7.21.30.90plusminus0.881.01.1plusminus0.920.3
 hK14      
  M6.1plusminus3.4* 4 1.14.8plusminus2.31.04.1plusminus2.61.1#
  F1.9plusminus1.40.40.74plusminus0.710.81.0plusminus0.450.3
       
Total of trypsin-like hKs
 M575plusminus183 488plusminus157 383plusminus166 
 F549plusminus221 95plusminus49* 6  336plusminus94 

 F=female; hK=kallikrein protein; M=male; SC=stratum corneum.

 Kallikrein concentrations are in ng/mg total protein. The percentages represent the fraction of each trypsin-like hK within the total amount of trypsin-like hKs.

  #Two-way ANOVA displayed significant differences between genders for hK6, hK10, and hK14 (P<0.05 for each). The post hoc test (Bonferroni method to reflect multiple comparisons) showed significant differences (P<0.05 for each) as follows: * 1, F-axilla versus F-face for hK8; * 2F-axilla versus M-axilla for hK11; * 3M-axilla versus M-face and F axilla for hK5; * 4M-face versus M-abdomen for hK6, hK13, and hK14; * 5face versus axilla and abdomen for F-hK10 and M-hK6; * 6F-axilla versus F-face, F-abdomen, and M-axilla for the total concentration of trypsin-like hKs.

  ##One-way ANOVA revealed significantly higher hK8 levels compared with the other trypsin-like hKs (P<0.05 for each), except in the axilla of females.

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