Liver Cancer
Copyright ©2005 Baishideng Publishing Group Inc.
World J Gastroenterol. Apr 28, 2005; 11(16): 2398-2401
Published online Apr 28, 2005. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i16.2398
Figure 1
Figure 1 Constitutive expression of β-catenin in normal bile ducts. Membranous expression is conspicuous in normal bile ducts and newly formed bile ducts (arrow heads), but no expression is observed in normal hepatocytes.
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Figure 2 Membranous expression. Membranous expression is conspicuous in tumor cell membranes. This case is moderately-differentiated HCC.
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Figure 3 Nuclear expression. Nuclear expression is encountered in the poorly-differentiated HCC (arrows). Most cells co-expressed β-catenin in the cytoplasm.
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Figure 4 Localization of β-catenin expression in cell level. M: membranous, M+C: membranous and cytoplasmic, M+N: membranous and nuclear, M+N+C: membranous, cytoplasmic, and nuclear, C: cytoplasmic.