| Variable | IL-1α | IL-1β | IL-6 | IL-8 | MMP-1 | MMP-3 | MMP-12 | MMP-13 | TGF-β | TNF-α | VEGF-β | ICAM-1 |
| IL-1α | | | 0.66 | 0.18 | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.19 | −0.41 | −0.56 | 0.41 | −0.13 | 0.25 | −0.05 |
| IL-1β | | | 0.11 | 0.62 | 0.32 | 0.62 | −0.50 | −0.53 | 0.74 | 0.28 | 0.25 | −0.82 | |
| IL-6 | | | 0.55 | 0.62 | 0.67 | 0.39 | 0.22 | 0.10 | 0.69 | −0.30 | 0.10 | ||
| IL-8 | | | 0.64 | 0.82 | −0.25 | 0.11 | 0.41 | 0.63 | −0.20 | 0.25 | |||
| MMP-1 | | | 0.72 | 0.38 | 0.37 | 0.62 | 0.62 | −0.01 | 0.36 | ||||
| MMP-3 | | | 0.03 | −0.11 | 0.62 | 0.54 | 0.03 | 0.07 | |||||
| MMP-12 | | | 0.55 | −0.27 | 0.33 | −0.16 | 0.37 | ||||||
| MMP-13 | | | −0.54 | −0.52 | 0.10 | 0.67 | |||||||
| TGF-β | | | −0.11 | 0.65 | −0.31 | ||||||||
| TNF-α | | | 0.65 | 0.50 | |||||||||
| VEGF-β | | | −0.71 | ||||||||||
| ICAM-1 | | |