Role of stress-activated MAP kinase P38 in cisplatin- and DTT-induced apoptosis of the esophageal carcinoma cell line Eca109

Table 1 Number of cells positive for p-P38 kinase upon cisplatin and DTT treatments

	D	C	D+C	U
-	26	23	15	69
±	29	31	31	21
+	24	25	24	6
++	21	21	30	4
Total scores	80.5b	82.5b	99.5b	24.5

D: DTT, C: cisplatin, D+C: DTT + cisplatin, U: untreated.

^bP<0.01 vs control group.