Table 7. Expression of Wnt signaling pathway proteins in each grade of IP
Markers | IHC grade | IP Grade | Total | Spearman’s ρ | p-value |
I (n=28) | II (n=37) | III (n=37) | IV (n=13) |
Wnt-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.142 | 0.130 |
| 1+ | 12 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 48 | | |
| 2+ | 12 | 16 | 26 | 2 | 56 | | |
| 3+ | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 11 | | |
β-Catenin | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 0.427 | <0.001 |
| 1+ | 11 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 34 | | |
| 2+ | 9 | 19 | 20 | 8 | 56 | | |
| 3+ | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 13 | | |
Cyclin D1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.355 | <0.001 |
| 1+ | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 23 | | |
| 2+ | 16 | 25 | 22 | 6 | 69 | | |
| 3+ | 1 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 23 | | |
Dvl-1 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 0.380 | <0.001 |
| 1+ | 14 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 50 | | |
| 2+ | 7 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 37 | | |
| 3+ | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | |
Adopted from Jung et al.18) with permission of Sage.