Microvessel count and vascular endothelial growth factor in renal cell carcinoma

Japanese Journal of Urology

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1032-1040

  Sasaki, Ryusei ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

microvessel; renal cell carcinoma; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 0029746702     PISSN: 00215287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5980/jpnjurol1989.87.1032     Document Type: Review

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