AKT2 and thyroid gland follicular carcinoma: Ringel et al. (42) examined levels of p-Akt(Ser473) and Akt1, Akt2 and Akt3 in 8 follicular thyroid cancers, 9 papillary thyroid cancers, and 11 normal thyroid samples by western blotting and observed increased Akt1, Akt2 and p-Akt(Ser473) in follicular but not papillary cancers.