“…-Actin was selected as an endogenous internal standard gene. The primers used were designed to human NTPDase1 (sense, 5Ј-CTACCCCTTTGACTTCCAGG-3Ј; antisense, 5Ј-GCACACTGG-GAGTAAGGGC-3Ј; Macvector Program; Oxford Molecular Group/Accelrys, Burlington, MA; , NTPDase2 (sense, 5Ј-TGGAGGCAGCCGCAGTGAATGT-3Ј; antisense, GGAGGCGAAG-AGCAGCAGGAGGAC; Wood et al, 2002), NTPDase3 (sense, 5Ј-AGC-CTGGTCTCTTGGCTACA-3Ј; antisense, 5Ј-ACCCCAGGCTGACTC-TAAGCA-3Ј; Primer3 software, http://frodo.wi.mit.edu/cgi-bin/primer3/ primer3_www.cgi), and -actin (sense, 5Ј-GGACTTCGAGCAA-GAGATGG-3Ј; antisense, 5Ј-AGCACTGTGTTGGCGTACAG-3Ј; Primer3). The predicted amplification products were 558, 300, 271, and 244 bp for the NTPDase1, NTPDase2, NTPDase3, and actin primer pairs, respectively.…”