Journal: Radiology and Oncology
Article Title: The role of focal adhesion kinase in bladder cancer: translation from in vitro to ex vivo human urothelial carcinomas
doi: 10.2478/raon-2025-0052
Figure Lengend Snippet: Molecular characterisation of normal urothelial cells (NPU) and bladder cancer cells (RT4 and T24) in vitro . (A) Relative expression levels of UPK1B, UPK3A, CDH1, CDH2 and PTK2 were determined using qRT-PCR in differentiated NPU cells (diff NPU), 7-day RT4 and 7-day T24 cells (RT4 (7 d) and T24 (7 d)). (B) Expression of E-cadherin, N-cadherin, FAK and p-FAK in 2-day NPU cells (NPU (2 d)), diff NPU, 2-day RT4 cells (RT4 (2 d)), RT4 (7 d), 2-day T24 cells (T24 (2 d)) and T24 (7 d), determined by western blot. (C) The relative protein expression of E-cadherin, N-cadherin, FAK and p-FAK in NPU (2 d), diff NPU, RT4 (2 d), RT4 (7 d), T24 (2 d) and T24 (7 d) normalised to the expression of β-actin. The results are presented as median with interquartile range. (D) Quantification of FAK-positive RT4 (7 d) and T24 (7 d) by flow cytometry. Data are presented as the mean ± the standard error of the mean (SEM). *P < 0.05.
Article Snippet: Other in vitro models include the low-grade (LG) human non-invasive papilloma urothelial cell line RT4 for NMIBC (Ta) and the high-grade (HG) human muscle-invasive cancer urothelial cell line T24 for MIBC (T2), both from ATCC (Manassas, VA).
Techniques: In Vitro, Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR, Western Blot, Flow Cytometry