Fig. 5: Alteration of renal CSCs correlates with the smoking status of renal cell carcinoma patients. | Oncogenesis

Fig. 5: Alteration of renal CSCs correlates with the smoking status of renal cell carcinoma patients.

From: Cigarette smoke stimulates the stemness of renal cancer stem cells via Sonic Hedgehog pathway

Fig. 5

Clinical kidney cancer specimens were collected from smoker and non-smoker renal cell carcinoma patients. a Western blotting of renal CSCs markers. b Quantitative analysis of Western blotting of renal CSCs markers. c Immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay of renal CSCs markers, 200× magnification. d Percentage of IHC positive cells in tissue samples. e Western blotting of SHH pathway proteins. f Quantitative analysis of Western blotting of SHH pathway proteins. non-CS: non-smoker cancer patients; CS: smoker cancer patients. Data are expressed as mean ± SD. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 compared with non-smoke cancer patients

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