Antibodies used for Western Blot were from: i) Cell Signaling Technology (Denver, MA),
anti-phospho-Akt (S473) (#4058),
anti-Akt1 (#2938), anti-Akt2 (#2964), anti-phospho-GSK3-αβ (Ser21/9) (#9331),
anti-GSK3 (#9338),
anti-STAT3 (#9139), anti-phospho-STAT3 (Y705) (#9145), anti-phospho-IkKα/β (Ser176/180) (#2697),
anti-IkB (#9242), anti-phospho-IkB (Ser32) (#2859), anti-PTEN (#9552), anti-p110α (#4255); ii) Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA), anti-IkKα (sc-7218); iii) Sigma-Aldrich,
anti-β-actin (clone AC-74, #A2228).
Antibodies used for immunostaining were selected according to previously published work: anti-CK7 (#35057) (Menarini, Florence, Italy), anti-CK34 (Enzo Diagnostics, Inc, Farmigale, NY),
anti-pAkt Ser473 (#3787) (Cell Signaling Technology),
anti-pSTAT3 Tyr705 (#9145) (Cell Signaling Technology), anti-IL-6 (AF-206-NA) (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN).
Protein preparation and Western blot analysis were carried out by standard methods [27 (
link)]. Densitometric analysis of gel bands was carried out with ImageJ software (NIH).
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