Association of resistance-related protein expression with poor vascularization and low levels of oxygen in human rectal cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 20-23

  Mattern, Jürgen ^a   Kallinowski, Friedrich ^b   Herfarth, Christian ^b   Volm, Manfred ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; METALLOTHIONEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; OXYGEN; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL HYPOXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ONCOGENE C JUN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; METALLOTHIONEIN; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OXYGEN; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 0030037148     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960703)67:1<20::AID-IJC5>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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