Significance of vessel count and vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptor (KDR) in intestinal-type gastric cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1679-1684

  Takahashi, Yutaka ^a,b   Cleary, Karen R ^a   Mai, Masayoshi ^b   Kitadai, Yasuhiko ^a   Bucana, Corazon D ^a   Ellis, Lee M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 2; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0029857184     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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