The patient cohort used herein consists of 47 EC, 20 SEH, 12 CEH and 38 specimens of normal endometrium that underwent surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (AMU) (Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China) between 2001 and 2002 as previously described [58 (link)]. The Institutional Review Board of AMU approved the protocol for the use of patient specimens in this study [58 (link)]. Patient consent forms were obtained from all patients in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki [58 (link)]. IHC analysis was performed as previously described [58 (link)] using rabbit anti-TFF3 was obtained from Abcam, Cambridge, MA; rabbit anti-SP1, rabbit anti-p-c-JUN and rabbit anti-c-JUN antibodies wereobtained from Cell Signaling Technology, Singapore [17 (link)]. The details of the cohort and IHC scoring methodology have previously been described in detail [30 (link), 58 (link), 59 (link)].
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