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. 2015 Jun 17;2015:165867. doi: 10.1155/2015/165867

Table 2.

Gene expression in A549 parental cells.

Cell type Early mesoderm Endoderm Lung progenitor cells Basal cells Ciliated cells Goblet cells Clara cells Alveolar type I cells Alveolar type II cells Cancer stem cells
Days of cultures Marker genes
FLK PDGFRα SOX17 FOXA2 TTF-1 p63 FOXJ1 MUC5AC CC10 T1α AQP5 SPC CFTR CD133

d1 + + + + + + + +
d2 + + + + + + +
d3 + + + + + + +
d4 + + + + + ++

RT-PCR results shown in Figure 1(b) were quantified and normalized by ribosomal 18S. The relative ratio of each gene expression level was evaluated by the lowest expression level among the samples as 1. —: not detected; +: 1–2.5-fold; ++: over 2.5-fold.