Journal: American Journal of Cancer Research
Article Title: Dysregulation and activities of ubiquitin specific peptidase 2b in the pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma
doi:
Figure Lengend Snippet: USP2b mRNA expression levels were markedly reduced in HCC-T tissues from HCC patients. (A) The expression levels of USP2 mRNA in human normal liver (n=12), HCC-NT (n=8) and HCC-T (n=21) detected by real-time PCR. (B) USP2b protein detected by Western blot in normal liver (n=8), HCC-NT (n=8) and HCC-T tissues (n=8). (C) Quantification of the USP2b protein levels in (B) by ImageJ. (D) The expression levels of USP2 mRNA in paired HCC-NT and HCC-T tissues as groups as well as (E) individual pairs (n=8). ***P<0.001 in students’ t-test for pair-wise comparison or one-way ANOVA, followed by Tukey post-hoc test for multiple comparisons.
Article Snippet: Human liver samples Human liver tissue microarray slides including a total of 76 normal, 38 HCC-NT and 115 HCC-T samples with 10 pairs of HCC-NT and HCC-T samples were purchased from US Biomax (Cat# BC03119b-SC2, LV241a-D024, LVN241-T202 and LVN801-H139).
Techniques: Expressing, Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Western Blot