Figure 4

Intercorrelation of aminogram variation between plasma and liver. (A) A schematic diagram of the experiment to investigate intercorrelation of aminogram variation between plasma and liver. (B) Heat map of the correlation matrix among amino acids between plasma and liver. The plot summarizes the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients among amino acids and their derivatives between plasma and liver. Coloured panel represents significant and strong correlation (|ρ|≧0.7, p<0.05) between plasma and liver amino acid concentrations in uninfected (upper) and infected (lower) mice. Each colour indicates as follows; yellow, positively correlated; blue, negatively correlated; white, not correlated.