Table 1

Correlation of tumor-derived MMP-13 with stromal fibroblast-derived MMP-13


Stromal Fibroblast-derived MMP-13




Low
 High
 p
 R


Tumor-derived MMP-13
n
 %
 n
 %



Low
 103
 75.7
 33
 24.3
 < 0.001
 0.634

High
 16
 12.6
 111
 87.4

Low: immunostaining SI < 6; High immunostaining SI ≥ 6; n: number of the cases.

Zhang et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:83   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-83