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Fig. 3 | BMC Gastroenterology

Fig. 3

From: Combined activity of COX-1 and COX-2 is increased in non-neoplastic colonic mucosa from colorectal neoplasia patients

Fig. 3

Immunohistochemical staining of colonic mucosa with cyclooxygenase (COX) subtype specific antibodies in patients with colorectal neoplasia. a COX-2 immunohistochemical staining appears localized to the cytoplasm of absorptive cells (yellow arrows). No staining is seen in goblet cells (red arrows). A pericryptal stromal cell is marked (green arrow). b COX-1 immunohistochemical staining, here with antibody sc-1752, appears to stain morphological appearing tuft cells (red arrows) and in the lamina propria proposedly myofibroblasts (green arrow). c Fluorescence double labeling shows no co-localization between COX-1 (green) and specific markers for endocrine cells (red). Arrows point at COX-1 positive tuft cells. Subfigures 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 have proportions of 100 μm per centimeter, subfigures 4 and 6 have proportions of 50 μm per centimeter. 1: Glucagon-like peptide-1, 2: Somatostatin, 3: Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide, 4: Proprotein Convertase-1, 5: Proprotein Convertase-2, 6: Serotonin, 7: Chromogranin A

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