In total, 21 BLCA tissue samples were acquired from patients who had undergone curative surgery at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. Ethical approval was obtained from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University Research Ethics Committee. Antibodies against anillin (ANLN) (DF13590, 1 : 200; Affinity Biosciences), CD8 (PB9249, 1 : 200; BOSTER), and PD-L1 (66248-1-lg, 1 : 5000; Proteintech) were used for the immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of these proteins in the tissue samples, which was performed according to previously published methods [17 (link)]. For the IHC analysis, the H-score was applied to assess the expression levels of PD-L1 and ANLN [18 (link)]. The number of CD8+ cells was counted using the ImageJ software.
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