Interstitial pH and pO2 gradients in solid tumors in vivo: High-resolution measurements reveal a lack of correlation

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 177-182

  Helmlinger, Gabriel ^a   Yuan, Fan ^a   Dellian, Marc ^a   Jain, Rakesh K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; COLON TUMOR; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PH;

ANIMALIA;

OXYGEN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 0030614893     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0297-177     Document Type: Article

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