SCD and gastric cancer: In vitro cell growth assay also confirmed that SCD1 could enhance the cell proliferation and colony-formation ability of gastric cancer cells (proliferation: HGC27: day5 P<0.0001, MKN45 day5 P<0.01; Colony formation: HGC27 vector: 152.7 ± 5.364, HGC27 SCD1: 214.0 ± 4.041 P<0.001, MKN45 vector: 171.0 ± 3.786, MKN45 SCD1: 352.7 ± 7.055 P<0.0001; Figure 3D–3I).