Table 4.
Immunostaining score values for MMPs and TIMP-2 in benign and malignant mammary tumors, expressed as the median (range).
| Protein | Immunostaining score values (median and range) |
p values | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benign tumors | Malignant tumors | ||
| MMP-2 | 58.5 (45.4-145.5) | 179.4 (120.1-267.3) | 0.002 |
| MMP-9 | 78 (26.8-189) | 101.1 (34.3-213.9) | 0.01 |
| MMP-13 | 84.2 (0-198.2) | 45.3 (0-101.2) | 0.005 |
| MT1-MMP | 65.3 (0-230.2) | 132.1 (34.2-221.2) | 0.002 |
| TIMP-2 | 74.3 (21.2-201.2) | 48.9 (0-136.6) | n.s. |
n.s. = not significant