Journal: Cancer Medicine
Article Title: Linking Targeted Pancreatic Cancer Genes With Metabolic Disorders: A Cross‐Species Translational Pathway
doi: 10.1002/cam4.71775
Figure Lengend Snippet: Synovial tissue gene expression profiles in healthy controls and osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Box and whisker plots display ΔCt values (y‐axis; normalised to GAPDH) for (A) ITGAM, (B) PECAM, (C) CCL5, (D) CXCL10, (E) STAT1, (F) STAT2, and (G) GZMB, quantified by qPCR. The x‐axis compares groups: Healthy Controls (synovium from neck‐of‐femur fracture patients), OA Normal‐Weight, and OA Obese. Lower ΔCt reflects higher gene expression. Whiskers span the full data range, boxes represent the IQR (25th–75th percentiles), and the central line marks the mean. Significance thresholds: “*” p < 0.05, “**” p < 0.01, “***” p < 0.001 (One‐way ANOVA with Tukey post hoc test for normally distributed data; Kruskal–Wallis with Dunn's post hoc test for not‐normally distributed data).
Article Snippet: The quality and quantity of RNA were determined by Nanodrop One (Thermofisher); all isolated RNA samples had A260/A280 ratios of 1.8–2.0. mRNA levels of ITGAM, PECAM, CCL5, CXCL10, STAT1, STAT2, and GZMB were determined by RT‐qPCR, relative to the housekeeping gene GAPDH, using the iTaq Universal One‐Step RT‐qPCR Kit (Bio‐Rad) and gene‐specific primers (Thermofisher; assay IDs: ITGAM Hs00167304_m1, PECAM1 Hs01065279_m1, CCL5 Hs00982282_m1, CXCL10 Hs00171042_m1, STAT1 Hs01013996_m1, STAT2 Hs01013115_g1, GZMB Hs00188051_m1).
Techniques: Gene Expression, Whisker Assay