Simultaneous expression of flotillin-1, flotillin-2, stomatin and caveolin-1 in non-small cell lung cancer and soft tissue sarcomas

Table 4 Expression ^a of microdomain-forming proteins mRNA in STS

	Gene expression in tumors compared with normal tissue samples
	Stomatin			Flotillin-1			Caveolin-1
	up	equal	down	up	equal	down	up	equal	down
Liposarcomas	5	5	5	3	3	8	0	3	12
Synovial sarcoma	3	1	2	4	2	0	3	0	3
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma	6	1	0	5	0	2	4	1	2
Malignant schwannoma	2	0	2	3	0	1	1	2	1
Other malignant tumors	2	0	1	1	1	1	2	0	1

^aup – higher gene expression in tumors compared with normal tissue samples.
down – lower gene expression in tumors compared with normal tissue samples.
equal – no significant difference in gene expression in tumors versus normal tissue samples.

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