Significance of vascular endothelial growth factor messenger RNA expression in primary lung cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1411-1416

  Ohta, Yasuhiko ^a   Endo, Yoshio ^a   Tanaka, Motohiro ^a   Shimizu, Junzo ^a   Oda, Makoto ^a   Hayashi, Yoshinobu ^a   Watanabe, Yoh ^a   Sasaki, Takuma ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL SPECIFICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOKINES; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0029738062     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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