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Table 2 Clinicopathological characteristics and TrkB 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

  

TrkB

 
  

Positive expression

(n = 36)

Negative expression

(n = 29)

p-value

Distribution

Solitary

10

15

*0.049

 

Multiple

26

14

 

Differentiation

Well

20

10

0.090

 

Moderate-poor

16

19

 

Stage

I+II

6

13

*0.013

 

III

30

16

 

Lymph node metastasis

+

-

14

22

9

20

0.510

  1. * = statistically significant difference.
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