Research Article
Snail Protein Expression as a Hallmark of Gastric Carcinoma in Biopsy Samples
Table 5
Correlation between Snail expression and E-cadherin, vimentin expression in gastritis, and adenoma biopsy samples.
| | Snail expression in gastritis | | | Snail expression in adnoma | | | Negative (<10) | Low (10–20) | Total | P | Negative (<10) | Low (10–20) | Total | P |
| E-cadherin | | | 43 | 0.024 | | | 41 | 0.034 | Negative (0–10%) | 7 (16%) | 3 (6%) | 10 | | 4 (10%) | 12 (30%) | 16 | | Positive (>10%) | 32 (74%) | 2 (4%) | 34 | | 23 (56%) | 2 (4%) | 25 | | Vimentin | | | 43 | 0.021 | | | 41 | 0.031 | Negative (0–10%) | 33 (77%) | 5 (12%) | 38 | | 23 (56%) | 4 (10%) | 27 | | Positive (>10%) | 1 (2%) | 4 (9%) | 5 | | 4 (10%) | 10 (24%) | 14 | |
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