“…After treatment cells were harvested and lysed, and equal aliquots of extracted protein were analyzed for Bcl-2 expression by Western blotting. The levels of β-actin were also measured as a normalization control 2002; Juuti et al, 2006). Although COX-1 is present at a constant level in most cells and tissues, previous studies have shown that COX-1 is highly expressed in several types of tumors,including breast cancer (Chulada et al, 2000;Kirschenbaum et al, 2000;Connolly et al, 2002;Sales et al, 2002;Gupta et al, 2003;Daikoku et al, 2005;Daikoku et al, 2006;Daikoku et al, 2007;Erovic et al, 2008).…”