Table 5

Intraocular versus plasma levels of cellular fibronectin, absolute and relative ratios

ControlUveitisDM
IF  =  intraocular fluid; DM  =  diabetes mellitus.
*Four out of 9 control samples were left out of the analysis, because they had no detectable intraocular IgG, which would otherwise have caused falsely elevated relative ratios.
Absolute IF/plasma ratio >10/14 (0%)1/13 (8%)3/10 (33%)
Absolute aqueous/plasma ratio >10/9 (0%)0/12 (0%)0/3 (0%)
Absolute vitreous/plasma ratio >10/5 (0%)1/1 (100%)3/7 (43%)
Relative IF/plasma ratio >30/5 (0%)*2/4 (50%)7/7 (100%)