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. 2022 Aug 10;11(1):47. doi: 10.1038/s41389-022-00422-6

Fig. 1. SPIN90 is significantly downregulated in CAFs of ER-positive breast cancer patients.

Fig. 1

A KM plots of recurrence-free survival in ER-positive (n = 2354) and ER-negative (n = 1080) breast cancer patients according to Spin90 level. Outlier data were removed for quality control. HR hazard ratio. B Representative IHC images showing expression of SPIN90 (green) and the epithelial cell marker E-cadherin (red) in breast cancers and paired normal stroma from ER-positive (n = 29) and ER-negative (n = 11) samples in a tumor microarray (BR804b). The white arrows indicate stromal fibroblasts. The graph shows the relative intensity score of SPIN90 in stroma as follows: 0 = negative, 1 = weak, 2 = moderate, 3 = strong. The images were scanned with an Olympus research slide scanner and analyzed using the Olympus cellSens and ImageJ software packages. Scale bar, 50 μm. All data are presented as mean ± standard deviation. *p ≤ 0.05; ***p ≤ 0.001 (Student’s t-test).