Figure 7.

Correlations between the levels of miR-137 and XIAP protein in ovarian cancer. (A) XIAP protein levels in 35 ovarian cancer tissues (OC) and 29 normal ovarian tissues (ON) were determined by western blot. Representative experiments are shown in the left panel and the statistical results are shown in the right panel. GAPDH served as an internal loading reference and the sample ON1 in the first lane of each gel was used as control for normalisation. (B) miR-137 expression in 35 ovarian cancer tissues and 29 normal ovarian tissues, with U6 serving as internal reference. (C, D) Correlation between the levels of XIAP protein and miR-137 in ovarian cancer tissues (C) and ovarian cancer cell lines (D) was evaluated using Pearson rank correlation analysis.