Translationally Controlled Tumor Protein in Prostatic Adenocarcinoma: Correlation with Tumor Grading and Treatment-Related Changes

Figure 1

Relative expression of TCTP by RT-qPCR in tumors of different pattern in respect to normal control. In untreated patients, higher expression is observed in cancer, in respect to non-neoplastic control, with an increase as tumor grade progresses (a) (-test, ). In treated patients, we found that the more the treatment is effective, the less the expression level of TCTP is, which is almost comparable to non-neoplastic control in GR (b) (GR: good responders; MR: moderate responders; PR: poor responders) (-test, ). The graphs are representative of three different experiments. Error bars indicate standard deviation.

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