Clinical Study

Transcription Expression and Clinical Significance of Dishevelled-3 mRNA and -Catenin mRNA in Pleural Effusions from Patients with Lung Cancer

Table 2

Results for DVL-3 mRNA, δ-catenin mRNA expression by RT-PCR and for cytological assessment in pleural effusions of patients with benign or malignant lung lesions.

GroupnDVL-3 mRNAδ-catenin mRNACytology
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Pneumonia26224422 0 26
Tuberculosis25124124 0 25
Adenocarcinoma75678696 44 31

as compared to pneumonia and tuberculosis. as compared to cytology. (i) The DVL-3 mRNAs were positively correlated with δ-catenin mRNA ( ). Date are number of specimens.