Comparative evaluation of somatostatin and CXCR4 receptor expression in different types of thyroid carcinoma using well-characterised monoclonal antibodies

Table 5 Correlations between expression intensities of the different SSTs, CXCR4 and Ki-67 in the thyroid carcinoma cases investigated

		SST2	SST3	SST4	SST5	CXCR4	Ki-67
SST1	r (p)	0.361 (0.006)	0.015 (0.914)	0.210 (0.120)	0.133 (0.328)	−0.174 (0.199)	0.211 (0.118)
SST2	r (p)		0.091 (0.505)	0.258 (0.055)	0.330 (0.013)	−0.015 (0.913)	0.216 (0.110)
SST3	r (p)			0.346 (0.009)	−0.039 (0.778)	0.119 (0.382)	0.351 (0.008)
SST4	r (p)				0.216 (0.109)	0.204 (0.131)	0.398 (0.002)
SST5	r (p)					0.103 (0.448)	0.277 (0.038)
CXCR4	r (p)						0.298 (0.028)

r: correlation coefficient (Spearman); p: p value; n = 56; significant correlations (p < 0.05) are marked in bold

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