Urinary Exosomal Long Noncoding RNA TERC as a Noninvasive Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker for Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma

Figure 3

Relative telomerase RNA component (TERC) expression levels in bladder urothelial carcinoma (BLCA) patients. (a) TERC expression levels in urinary exosome samples from the three healthy controls and four BLCA patients used for RNA-sequencing are shown as . (b, c) Real-time quantitative PCR detection of TERC in different sample types including urine exosomes and tissues (ns: , , ). Relative expression levels in tissues were normalized to GAPDH, while 18S was used as the internal reference gene in exosomes. Groups were compared with the nonparametric Mann–Whitney test.

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