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From: Senescence-related deterioration of intercellular junctions in the peritoneal mesothelium promotes the transmesothelial invasion of ovarian cancer cells

Figure 2

Representative pictures showing the expression of the intercellular junctions in the PMCs located near ovarian cancer cells that had invaded them and had reached the stroma and in the areas of the peritoneum free from cancer cells. (a) The arrows indicate a layer of PMCs (magnification ×100). Ca – cancerous tissue. Panel (b) shows a quantification of the junctional protein expression in the examined tissues. Analysis was performed using 32 tumors from patients with EOC. The results are expressed as the mean ± SEM. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01 vs. cancer (−).

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