Increased expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and angiogenesis in the early stage of multistep hepatocarcinogenesis

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1061-1065

  Park, Young Nyun ^a   Kim, Young Bae ^b   Yang, Kyung Moo ^a   Park, Chanil ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CAPILLARY FLOW; CELL PROLIFERATION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER SINUSOID; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL DIVISION; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0004623809     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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