Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Jun 14;7:3542. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03760-3

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2017

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

GGT expression in resected tissues. (a) Immunohistochemical staining of GGT in tissue samples showing the grades assigned according to the cell membrane staining pattern: Grades 1, 2, and 3 correspond to lower, equivalent, or higher, respectively, staining intensity in cancerous tissues compared with non-cancerous liver parenchyma. (b) Proportion of the indicated tumor samples with GGT staining Grades 1, 2, and 3. Staining intensity tended to be higher in 23 High-gGlu-HMRG HCCs (21 samples Grade 2 or 3) than in 17 Low-gGlu-HMRG HCCs (6 samples Grade 2 or 3, P < 0.001). All 7 ICCs and 34 CRLMs examined were classified as Grade 3. (c) In 9 patients (10 metastatic tumors) with synchronous CRLM, the “stain rate” (proportion of cancerous tissue stained vs. unstained) in the hepatic metastases were positively correlated with and tended to be higher than the stain rates of the corresponding primary colorectal cancers (Pearson’s correlation coefficient r = 0.873, y = 1.28× + 9.76, P = 0.001).