Figure 1. Expression of miR-184 is elevated in HCC.

A. Real-time PCR analysis of miR-184 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines (Hep3B, BEL-7402, MHCC97H, HCCC-9810, MHCC97L, Huh7, QGY-7703 and HepG2), compared with normal liver epithelial THLE3 cells and two noncancerous hepatic tissues (ANT1 and ANT2). B. The expression of miR-184 was examined in eight paired cancerous tissues (T) and their adjacent noncancerous hepatic tissues (ANT), showed in a boxplot. The average miR-184 expression was normalized using U6 expression. Each bar represents the mean ± SD of three independent experiments. *P<0.05.