Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor, its receptor, and other angiogenic factors in human breast cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2013-2016

  Yoshiji, Hitoshi ^a   Gomez, Daniel E ^a   Shibuya, Masabumi ^b   Thorgeirsson, Unnur P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR DENSITY; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOKINES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0029935566     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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