Journal: PLoS ONE
Article Title: High Expression of CD109 Antigen Regulates the Phenotype of Cancer Stem-Like Cells/Cancer-Initiating Cells in the Novel Epithelioid Sarcoma Cell Line ESX and Is Related to Poor Prognosis of Soft Tissue Sarcoma
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084187
Figure Lengend Snippet: A. Expression of CD109 mRNA in ES cell lines. Bars represent mean±SEM. ※※※ p <0.001, determined by the Mann-Whitney test. N.S.: not significant. B. Expression of CD109 mRNA in human sarcoma cell lines. Cell lines of epithelioid sarcoma (FU-EPS-1 and VA-ES-BJ), osteosarcoma (OS2000, KIKU, NY, U2OS, Saos-2, HuO9 and HOS), Ewing sarcoma (SKES, WES and RDES), synovial sarcoma (Fuji and YaFuSS) and malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH2003 and MFH2004) were used. C. Expression of CD109 mRNA in human fetal tissues (upper panel) and human adult tissues (lower panel). ESX was used as a positive control. D. Immunohistochemistry of CD109 in normal adult tissues.
Article Snippet: Human osteosarcoma cell lines (NY, U2OS and HOS), human Ewing sarcoma cell lines (SKES, WES, and RDES), the human synovial sarcoma cell line FUJI, and the human ES cell line VA-ES-BJ were purchased from the Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources Cell Bank (Tokyo, Japan) and American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA, USA).
Techniques: Expressing, MANN-WHITNEY, Positive Control, Immunohistochemistry