Table 1.

The relationship between HCC recurrence/HCC-induced death and the immunostaining of GS and Arg1.

	Recurrence			Death
Variables	Yes, n (%)	No, n (%)	P value	Yes, n (%)	No, n (%)	P value
GS+	133 (71.51)	53 (28.49)	<0.0001	116 (62.37)	70 (37.63)	<0.0001
GS−	21 (32.31)	44 (67.69)		13 (20.00)	52 (80.00)
Arg1+	52 (51.49)	49 (48.51)	0.0084	37 (36.63)	64 (63.37)	0.0002
Arg1−	102 (68.00)	48 (32.00)		92 (61.33)	58 (38.67)
GS−Arg1−	10 (33.33)	20 (66.67)	<0.0001	5 (16.67)	25 (83.33)	<0.0001
GS−Arg1+	11 (31.43)	24 (68.57)		8 (22.86)	27 (77.14)
GS+Arg1−	92 (76.67)	28 (23.33)		87 (72.50)	33 (27.50)
GS+Arg1+	41 (60.12)	25 (39.88)		29 (43.94)	37 (56.06)

Arg1: Arginase 1; GS: Glutamine synthetase; GS: Glutamine synthetase; GS−: GS negative; GS+: GS positive; HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma.