Figure 2From: The tumour-associated glycoprotein podoplanin is expressed in fibroblast-like synoviocytes of the hyperplastic synovial lining layer in rheumatoid arthritisAnti-podoplanin antibody D2-40 recognizes 45kD band in Western blot of synovial protein extracts. Western blot of extracted membrane proteins from human synovial tissue from a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (lane 1), cell pellet of human MRC-5 lung fibroblast cell line (lane 2) and recombinant immature podoplanin core protein (lane 3) separated on a 20% sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis gel probed with the antipodoplanin antibody (D2-40).Back to article page