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The correlation of cancer stem-like cells proteins, VM, and VM-associated proteins

		TNBC	VM	ALDH1	CD44/CD24	CD133	VE-Cadherin	MMP2	HIF-1α
TNBC	r	1	0.332^**	0.371^**	0.164^*	0.022	0.112	0.212^**	0.264^**
TNBC	P		0.000	0.000	0.021	0.857	0.089	0.005	0.000
VM	r		1	0.200^**	0.206^**	0.105	0.200^**	0.114	0.147^*
VM	P			0.005	0.003	0.372	0.003	0.133	0.042
ALDH1	r			1	0.082	-0.107	0.250^**	0.211^**	0.194^**
ALDH1	P				0.251	0.385	0.001	0.005	0.010
CD44/CD24	r				1	0.225	0.020	0.120	0.178^*
CD44/CD24	P					0.065	0.789	0.113	0.018
CD133	r					1	0.107	0.080	0.106
CD133	P						0.385	0.567	0.445
VE-Cadherin	r						1	0.199^*	0.214^*
VE-Cadherin	P							0.011	0.029
MMP2	r							1	0.692^**
MMP2	P								0.000
HIF-1α	r								1
HIF-1α	P

* means P < 0.05, ** means P < 0.01, *** means P < 0.001.