“…THY1 is expressed in various types of cells [9], such as thymus [16][17][18], T cells and B cells [11,12], neurons [19], fibroblasts [20], ovarian cells [21,22], endothelial cells [12], and kidney [23,24], in various animals, including mice [10,11,13,[15][16][17][18][19]25], rats [9,10,20,[22][23][24], and humans [10,21]. THY1 has been reported to be involved in various functions, such as proliferation and apoptosis [17,23,24,26] as well as adhesion [12,16,19,20,27,28]. Of these suggested functions, cell adhesion is one that has gained general acceptance [12].…”