Fig. 5.

Relative gene expression in vaginal tissue. Fold change of selected genes between vaginal polyp (patient) and controls 1 (reference), 2 and 4. RNA from control 3 was degraded and excluded from this analysis. Real-time PCR was performed and data were normalized to GAPDH using the Pfaffl method [10]. Each assay was repeated three times and the average fold change is shown. Error bars represent standard deviation.