Pathobiological significance of vascular endothelial growth factor and Maspin expressions in human gastric carcinoma

Table 4 VEGF and Maspin expressions in NMNCE, GNEIM and gastric carcinoma

Histological type	n	VEGF		+%	Maspin		+%
		+	-		+	-
NMNCE	39	0	39	0	16a	23	41.0
GNEIM	14	-	-	-	14	0	100.0
Gastric carcinoma
Papillary adenocarcinoma	3	3	0	100.0	2	1	66.7
Well-differentiated adenocarcinoma	3	2	1	66.7	2	1	66.7
Moderately-differentiated adenocarcinoma	6	5	1	83.3	2	4	33.3
Poorly-differentiated adenocarcinoma	21	14	7	66.7	11	10	52.4
Undifferentiated adenocarcinoma	3	2	1	66.7	1	2	33.3
Signet ring-cell carcinoma	3	2	1	66.7	2	1	66.7
Total of gastric carcinoma	39	28	11	71.8	20	19	51.3

Maspin was weakly expressed in gland cells of the stomach body, while it was not expressed in superficial epithelial cells and pyloric gland of the stomach.