Fig. 2.
TGFβ1 and EGF promote ARCaP prostate cancer EMT as evidenced by morphology and gene expression analyses. (a) ARCaPE cells have a typical cobblestone-like epithelial morphology, which could be altered to mesenchymal-like morphology by simultaneous treatment of TGFβ1 and EGF for 3–37 days. (b) The treatment inhibited the epithelial E-cad marker, but increased the mesenchymal vimentin and RANKL markers. (c) Effect of TGFβ1 and EGF treatment was transient, as termination of the treatment led to re-expression of the E-cad with decreased vimentin expression, 9 days after removal of the growth factors
