GAL and hepatocellular carcinoma: The expression patterns of these proteins in HCC tissues revealed a positive correlation between protein levels of Gal-1 with αv integrin (P=0.0119, R2=0.2056), β3 integrin (P=0.0242, R2=0.1686) and p-AKT (P=0.0194, R2=0.1802; Supplementary Figure 1).