Relationship between expression of gastrin, somatostatin, Fas/FasL and caspases in large intestinal carcinoma

Table 2 Correlation between clinicopathological factors and GAS and SS mRNA and protein expression in LIC

Groups	n	mRNA						Protein
		GAS (+)	χ2	P	SS (+)	χ2	P	GAS (+)	χ2	P	SS (+)	χ2	P
Differentiation
Well	27	8b	10.47	< 0.01	18			6b	10.23	< 0.01	17	5.24	< 0.05
Moderate	28	11a	6.68	< 0.05	10c		< 0.05	10a	4.95	< 0.05	9c	11.24	< 0.01
Poor	24	18			5d	10.78	< 0.01	16			4d
Histological types
Papillary	19	6e	4.80	< 0.05	13			4e	6.22	< 0.05	12
Tubular	35	13e	4.40	< 0.05	14			11e	4.38	< 0.05	14
Mucinous and signet-ring	16	11			4g	6.56	< 0.05	10			3g	6.99	< 0.05
Undifferentiated	9	7			2g	5.44	< 0.05	7			1g	7.33	<0.05
Dukes’ stage
A and B	36	12i	4.84	< 0.05	20i	5.17	< 0.05	10i	4.44	< 0.05	18i	4.06	< 0.05
C and D	43	25			13			22			12

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01 vs poor differentiation;

^cP < 0.05,

^dP < 0.01 vs well differentiation;

^eP < 0.05 vs mucinous and signet-ring and undifferentiated;

^gP < 0.05 vs papillary;

ⁱP < 0.05 vs Dukes’ stages C and D.