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Table 1 Clinicopathological characteristics and BDNF expression by immunohistochemistry in 65 cases of HCCs.

From: More expressions of BDNF and TrkB in multiple hepatocellular carcinoma and anti-BDNF or K252a induced apoptosis, supressed invasion of HepG2 and HCCLM3 cells

  

BDNF

 
  

Higher expression

(n = 41)

Lower expression

(n = 24)

p-value

Distribution

Solitary

10

15

*0.002

 

Multiple

31

9

 

Differentiation

Well

23

7

*0.036

 

Moderate-poor

18

17

 

Stage

I+II

7

12

*0.005

 

III

34

12

 

Lymph node metastasis

+

-

19

22

4

20

*0.016

  1. * = statistically significant difference.