Fig. 5: Upregulation of CTTN and CREB1 in clinical specimens.

a, b CTTN and CREB1 expression in 30 HBx ( + ) and 22 HBx (−) HCC tissues from patients, as assessed by qPCR. The data are presented as mean ± SD of three independent experiments. **P < 0.01. c The correlation between CTTN and CREB1 expression in tissue samples was analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation analysis