All steps were conducted as described in the previous study [23 (link)]. All tissue specimens were fixed with 37% formalin and then paraffin-embedded, haematoxylin and eosin were used for staining. For IHC, the antibodies were listed as follows: HMMR (1:300, Proteintech, Wuhan, China), phosphor-AKT (Ser473) (1:100, Service Bio, Wuhan, China), N-cadherin (1:100, Service Bio, Wuhan, China), and Ki-67 (1:100, Service Bio, Wuhan, China). All images were captured by an ECLIPSE Ti microscope system (Nikon, Japan).
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