Table 1. RhoB protein levels in normal ovaries and tumor differentiotion.
| Tissues | Cases |
Expression of RhoB %
|
Positive rate % | Strong positive rate % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <25 | 25-50 | 50-75 | >75 | ||||
| Normal ovary tissue | 16 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 100 | 62.5 |
| Benign disease | 9 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 100 | 33.3 |
| serous cystadenoma | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 100 | 16.7 |
| mucinous cystadenoma | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100 | 66.7 |
| Borderline tumors | 14 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 92.8 | 64.3 |
| borderline serous cystadenoma | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 100 | 77.8 |
| borderline mucinous cystadenoma | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 80.0 | 40.0 |
| Malignant tumors | 57 | 33 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 42.1 | 1.75 |
| poor-differentiated | 25 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 4 |
| medium-differentiated | 25 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 56 | 0 |
| well-differentiated | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 71.5 | 0 |
| serous carcinoma | 33 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 39.4 | 0 |
| mucinous carcinoma | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 42.1 | 0 |
| Others | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60 | 20 |
RhoB protein levels were detected in normal ovaries, benign disease, borderline tumors and malignant ovary carcinoma respectively.