Table 2.

Relationship between expression of CD44s, CD44v6, nm23 mRNA, and pathologic feature of human gastric adenocarcinoma

Pathologic	n	CD44s			CD44v6			nm23 mRNA
feature		Positive	%	P	Positive	%	P	Positive	%	P
Grade				>0.05			b<0.01			>0.05
II	20	8	40.0		10	50.0		9	45.0
III	20	10	50.0		15	75.0		10	50.0
Invasion				>0.05			d<0.01			>0.05
+	23	11	47.8		18	78.2		11	47.8
–	17	7	41.1		7	41.0		8	47.1
Metastasis				>0.05			f<0.01			f<0.01
+	15	6	40.0		12	80.0		4	26.7
–	25	12	48.0		13	52.0		15	60.0
Age/year				>0.05			>0.05			>0.05
>60	21	10	47.2		13	61.9		9	42.9
<60	19	8	42.1		12	63.1		10	52.6
Normal	22	3	13.6		0	0		9	43.0

^bP <0.01 vs well-differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma;

^dP <0.01 vs without invasion;

^fP <0.01 vs without metastasis.