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. 2013 Aug 12;8(8):e70744. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070744

Figure 7. Modulation of growth factor signaling cascade in chronic HCV infection.

Figure 7

Liver biopsies were obtained from 10 HCV infected patients with inflammation but no fibrosis, 10 HCV infected patients with grade III/IV fibrosis and 10 patients with NASH. Expression levels of: a) mIR200c; b) FAP-1 and c) cSrc were analyzed by quantitative RT-PCR using pre-developed Taqman miRNA assays. The small RNA U6b was used as an endogenous control and relative miRNA quantity was calculated by the ΔΔCt method. The horizontal line represents the average and standard deviation of fold expression levels in the groups.