Fig. 10

Validation of the OSCC hypermetabolic signature. a This heatmap displays the metabolic score of five pathways (glycolysis, pentose phosphate pathway, oxidative phosphorylation, glutamate/glutamine metabolism, and hypoxia) in OSCC samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Samples were divided into two clusters based on the median score of their metabolic signature. b The expression of Treg infiltration, CXCL12, HIF1A, and SLC16A1 was found to be upregulated in samples with high metabolic scores compared to those with low metabolic scores