Table 1.
Results of IL-1α or IL-1β mRNA expression in several tumor cell lines evaluated by quantitative RT-PCR.
Human tumor cell lines | IL-1α* | IL-1β* |
SMEL (melanoma) | 3,267 | 0 |
WIDR (colon cancer) | 1 | 122,932 |
H2030 (NSCLC) | 0 | 29,084 |
PMEL (melanoma) | 35 | 67 |
SL-2 (squamous cell cancer) | 140 | 0 |
* Gene expression is expressed as copy number per 105 copies of β-actin; copy number > 1,000/105 copies β-actin is in boldface.