Increased expression of angiogenin in gastric carcinoma in correlation with tumor angiogenesis and proliferation

Table 1 ANG and ANG mRNA expression and clinicopathological characteristics of gastric carcinoma

Characteristics	n	ANG mRNA(mean ± SE)	ANG
			+	++	+++	++++
Age (yr)
< 60	37	1.727 ± 0.287	3	7	19	8
≥ 60	31	2.634 ± 0.698	0	4	16	11
Site
Cardia	25	2.866 ± 0.610	0	1	14	10
Corpus	10	1.310 ± 0.166	1	1	4	4
Antrum	25	2.366 ± 0.737	2	6	13	4
Others	8	1.704 ± 0.508	0	3	4	1
Differentiation
Well-moderate	27	1.986 ± 0.247	1	2	15	9
Poor	41	2.242 ± 0.570	2	9	20	10
Depth of invasion
Lamina and muscularis propria	12	1.384 ± 0.148	2	2	6	2
Visceral peritoneum	56	2.302 ± 0.429	1	9	29	17
Lymph node metastasis
(-)	14	1.722 ± 0.186	1	1	9	3
(+)	54	2.245 ± 0.445	2	10	26	16
TNM stage
I	12	1.756 ± 0.212	1	1	8	2
II	25	1.621 ± 0.273	2	3	10	10
III-IV	31	2.708 ± 0.739	0	7	17	7