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. 2005 Feb 8;5:1. doi: 10.1186/1475-2867-5-1

Figure 3.

Figure 3

RT-PCR of MMPs in breast cancer cells. Breast cancer cells were cultured as described in the Material and methods in the absence (A) and presence (B) of TGFβ (10-10 M). Total RNA was isolated and RT-PCR performed with specific primers for MMPs-1,2,3,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17. The housekeeping gene GAPDH was used as a positive control. Representative results for MDA-231 cells are shown (A) and (B): Lane 1 MMP-1; lane 2 MMP-13; lane 3 MMP-3; lane 4 MMP-9; lane 5 MMP-14; lane 6 GAPDH. The normal breast cell line HME stimulated with TGFβ is shown in (C). Band intensities were quantified by scanning densitometry and data expressed as a ratio (MMP/G3PDH) of the average optical density (OD) × area. The ratio of the intensity of the MMP mRNA band over the intensity of the G3PDH mRNA was arbitrarily designated as 1.0.