The expression level of VEGF-A, VEGFR-1, and VEGFR-2 genes
Gene
Expression level
Number of cases (%)
VEGF-A
Low expression
37 (61.7%)
High expression
23 (38.3%)
VEGFR-1
Low expression
41 (68.3%)
High expression
19 (31.7%)
VEGFR-2
Low expression
41 (68.3%)
High expression
19 (31.7%)
Patients with a value of 2-ΔCt inferior to the median are considered as low expressed for the corresponding gene and vice versa
Declarations
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Department of Thoracic Surgery staff for patient recruitment and fresh tissues collection. We also thank the General Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy physicians for anatomopathological examination.
Author contributions
YE: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing—original draft. SH, MK, SB, and MR: Data curation, Writing—review & editing. HD and FG: Writing—review & editing. MA and ME: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing. IC: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Ethical approval
The study was approved by Ethics Committee of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital (Ethical approval number: 01/20).
Consent to participate
Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.
Consent to publication
Not applicable.
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