A Plausible Anti-Apoptotic Role of Up-Regulated OCT4B1 in Bladder Tumors

A Plausible Anti-Apoptotic Role of Up-Regulated OCT4B1 in Bladder Tumors

PURPOSE: To investigate and compare the expression of OCT4B1 between tumor and non-tumor bladder tissues. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We investigated the expression of OCT4B1 in 30 tumor and non-tumor surgical specimens of the bladder, using the TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction approach and by...

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Main Authors: Jamshid Asadzadeh, Malek Hossein Asadi, Nasser Shakhssalim, Mahmoud-Reza Rafiee, Hamid Reza Kalhor, Mahmoud Tavallaei, Seyed Javad Mowla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2012-08-01
Series:Urology Journal
Subjects:
cancer stem cells
urinary bladder neoplasms
apoptosis
neoplasm invasiveness
prognosis
Online Access:http://www.urologyjournal.org/index.php/uj/article/view/1595/668

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