CTHRC1 and lung cancer: As shown in Figure 1A and B, Western blot and real-time RT-PCR analysis revealed that all lung cancer cell lines, including NCI-H226, NCl-H23, NCl-H820, NCl-H446 and A549, exhibited higher levels of CTHRC1 expression compared to that of primary human normal lung epithelial cells (Beas-2Bs) at both the protein and mRNA levels.