Tumor metastasis and the reciprocal regulation of heparanase gene expression by nuclear factor kappa B in human gastric carcinoma tissue

Table 1 Correlations between the expression of NF-κB and clinical pathological features of gastric cancers.

Clinical pathological indices	Cases	Mean rank	Value	Asymp. sig. (two-sided)	Test
Depth of invasion	45		χ2 = 18.531	0.006a	Kruskal-Wallis H
Mucosa	4	52.83
Submucosa	2	14.5
Superficial muscular	3	19.5
Deep muscular	2	5.5
Serosa	30	32.5
Out of serosa	4	5.83
Lymphatic permeation	45		Z = 2.148	0.032a	Mann-Whitney U
Have	3	5.5 0
No	42	33.37
Stage			χ2 = 8.758	0.033 a	Median test
I	5	35
II	5	39.5
III	20	30.9
IV	15	34.4
Histological grading	45		χ2 = 8.920	0.014 a	Kruskal-Wallis H
Well	8	18.3
Middle	15	31.6
Poor	22	37.21

^aP<0.05.