Fig. 7.

Clinical significance of NPTXR expression in gastric tissues from patients with GC. a qRT-PCR analysis of NPTXR mRNA levels in 80 pairs of GC and matched adjacent normal gastric tissues according to disease stage and the presence or absence of disease recurrence (Rec). b Kaplan–Meier curves of overall and disease-free survival of patients in the institutional and validation cohorts with stage I–III GC according to NPTXR expression. c Representative images of IHC staining of NPTXR protein expression in gastric tissue sections. Left panel, section with undetectable NPTXR expression; right panels, sections with positive NPTXR expression