Research Article

MicroRNA-21 Promotes Cell Growth and Migration by Targeting Programmed Cell Death 4 Gene in Kazakh’s Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Table 1

The expression of miR-21 and PDCD4 in paraffin-embeded ESCC and matched tissues by ISH and IHC.

Sample
( = 50)
miR-21 expression value PDCD4 expression value
Negative (−) Positive (+) Negative (−) Positive (+)

ESCC13 (26.4%)37 (73.6%)0.004 35 (70.0%) 15 (30.0%) 0.000
Normal27 (51.0%)23 (49.0%)12 (24.0%) 38 (76.0%)