Research Article
Snail Protein Expression as a Hallmark of Gastric Carcinoma in Biopsy Samples
Table 6
Correlation between Snail expression and E-cadherin, vimentin expression in carcinoma biopsy samples.
| Differentiation | | Snail expression in carcinoma | Total | P
| | Negative (<10) | Low (10–20) | High (>20) | 165 |
| Well | E-cadherin | | | | 36 | 0.031 | Negative (0–10%) | 0 | 3 (8%) | 20 (56%) | 23 | | Positive (>10%) | 1 (3%) | 6 (16%) | 6 (17%) | 13 | | Vimentin | | | | 36 | 0.025 | Negative (0–10%) | 1 (3%) | 4 (11%) | 3 (8%) | 8 | | Positive (>10%) | 0 | 5 (14%) | 23 (64%) | 28 | |
| Moderately | E-cadherin | | | | 48 | 0.039 | Negative (0–10%) | 0 | 5 (10%) | 30 (63%) | 35 | | Positive (>10%) | 0 | 8 (17%) | 5 (10%) | 13 | | Vimentin | | | | 48 | 0.032 | Negative (0–10%) | 0 | 6 (12%) | 3 (6%) | 9 | | Positive (>10%) | 0 | 7 (15%) | 32 (67%) | 39 | |
| Poorly | E-cadherin | | | | 51 | 0.019 | Negative (0–10%) | 0 | 4 (8%) | 41 (80%) | 45 | | Positive (>10%) | 0 | 3 (6%) | 3 (6%) | 6 | | Vimentin | | | | 51 | 0.023 | Negative (0–10%) | 0 | 2 (4%) | 4 (8%) | 6 | | Positive (>10%) | 0 | 5 (10%) | 40 (78%) | 45 | |
| Signet-ring cell | E-cadherin | | | | 30 | 0.042 | Negative (0–10%) | 3 (10%) | 5 (17%) | 10 (33%) | 18 | | Positive (>10%) | 6 (20%) | 5 (17%) | 1 (3%) | 12 | | Vimentin | | | | 30 | 0.044 | Negative (0–10%) | 7 (23%) | 6 (20%) | 0 | 13 | | Positive (>10%) | 2 (7%) | 4 (14%) | 11 (36%) | 17 | |
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