| Number | Mean*
| Standard deviation | P value |
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Tumor | 56 | 0.33 | 0.04 | 0.008 |
Non-tumor | 56 | 0.09 | 0.02 | |
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*The membranes were exposed to NEN Renaissance x-ray film. The linear-range signal intensity of each specific band on the fluorogram is quantitated by a densitometric scanning system and comparison of proteins of interest is performed after normalization to the densitometric scanning of the Ponceau S staining. The control value of Ponceau S was assigned an arbitrary unit of 1, and the expression of each protein was denoted as arbitrary densitometry units (ADU) relative to the corresponding value of Ponceau S stain.