Table 1.
Tissue | Scoringa | Cell Type Specificity | HPAb Detection |
---|---|---|---|
Adrenal gland | 2.0 | Adrenal cortical cells | High |
Bladder | 1.0 | Detrusor muscle | Medium |
Bone marrow | 0.5 | Hematopoietic cells | Low |
Breast | 1.0 | Large duct epithelium; terminal duct lobular unit | Medium |
Bronchus | 1.0 | Bronchiolar epithelium; smooth muscle | Medium |
Cerebellum | 1.3 | Granular cells; Purkinje cells; neurons/axons | High |
Cerebral cortex | 0.5 | Axons; neuropil | Low |
Esophagus | 1.7 | Squamous epithelium; smooth muscle | Medium |
Fallopian tube | 1.5 | Epithelium; vascular tissue; smooth muscle | Medium |
Heart | 2.0 | Myocytes | Medium |
Intestine, colon | 1.1 | Epithelium | Medium |
Intestine, rectum | 1.0 | Epithelium | Medium |
Intestine, small intestine | 2.0 | Epithelium | Medium |
Kidney | 2.5 | Tubular epithelium | Medium |
Liver | 2.0 | Hepatocytes | Medium |
Lung | 1.0 | Epithelium; alveolar macrophages | Low |
Muscle, skeletal | 2.0 | Myocytes | Low |
Ovary | 1.0 | Fibrovascular tissue | ND |
Pancreas | 2.0 | Acinar cells; duct cells | Medium |
Pituitary gland | 1.3 | Pituicytes | NA |
Placenta | 1.0 | Cytotrophoblasts | Medium |
Prostate | 1.0 | Fibromuscular stroma | Low |
Skin | 1.0 | Squamous epithelium; eccrine duct | Medium |
Spleen | 0.0 | ND | |
Stomach | 1.5 | Superficial foveolar epithelium | High |
Testis | 1.0 | Sertoli cells | Low |
Thymus | 1.7 | Macrophages; epithelium | NA |
Thyroid | 1.0 | Follicular epithelium | Medium |
Tonsil | 1.2 | Squamous epithelium; macrophages | Low |
Trachea | 1.0 | Epithelium | NA |
Uterus | 1.2 | Endometrium; smooth muscle | Medium |
NA, not available; ND, not detected.
Tissue arrays scored as no staining (0), mild (1), moderate (2), or strong (3). Scores given are average of multiple sections and tissue arrays (n≥2).
From the Human Protein Atlas (HPA; www.proteinatlas.org).