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Table 2.

Histochemical staining of mucins in gastric biopsy specimens

Antigen		H.pylori negative	H.pylori positive
MUC5AC	% Stained^*^a, intensity score (surface)	(69.8% ± 3.5%), 2.8 ± 0.1	(51.2% ± 5.7%), 2.6 ± 0.1
MUC6	% Stained^^^a, intensity score (surface)^a	4%, 0.1 ± 0.1	72%, 1.8 ± 0.2
Le\ + b	% Stained^^^a, intensity score (surface)^a	63%, 0.9 ± 0.2	96%, 1.9 ± 0.2
Paradoxical ConA	% Stained^^^a, intensity score (surface)^a	18%, 0.4 ± 0.2	79%, 2.1 ± 0.3
LeX	% Stained^^^a, intensity score (surface)^a	4%, 0.4 ± 0.4	59%, 1.0 ± 0.2
MUC1	Intensity score (surface), intensity score(glands)	2.6 ± 0.2, 1.7 ± 0.1	2.7 ± 0.1, 1.4 ± 0.2
Sialyl Tn	Intensity score (surface), intensity score (glands)^a	1.8 ± 0.2, 1.9 ± 0.1	1.6 ± 0.1, 1.4 ± 0.1

% of surface epithelium stained; ^**% of patients with surface staining;

P < 0.05, H.pylori positive vs H.pylori negative