Downregulation of gastrokine-1 in gastric cancer tissues and restoration of its expression induced gastric cancer cells to apoptosis

Table 1 Clinic and histological characteristics of the study population

Histological type	Patient number	Gender		Age(yr) mean ± SD
		Male	Female
Healthy volunteers	20	10	10	44.6 ± 12.7
Atrophic gastritis	40	25	15	50.2 ± 10.8
Intestinal metaplasia	40	26	14	60.9 ± 13.5
Dysplasia	40	30	10	64.0 ± 11.4
Gastric cancer	39	23	16	53.0 ± 10.0

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