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Fig. 1 | Respiratory Research

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From: Fibroblast-epithelial cell interactions drive epithelial-mesenchymal transition differently in cells from normal and COPD patients

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Basal mRNA expression of mesenchymal markers was increased in DHBE cells. Basal mRNA expression of EMT-related markers in non-COPD (NHBE, open bar, n = 3) and COPD (DHBE, closed bar, n = 3) human bronchial epithelial cells were analyzed by real-time RT-PCR. Results were normalized to NHBE and expressed as mean (SE) of three independent experiments. Data were analysed by Student t test, *p < 0.05, compared with NHBE. (a) E-cadherin (b) N-cadherin (c) vimentin (d) Ratio of E-/N-cadherin. ns: not significant

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