Increased expression of midkine during the progression of human astrocytomas

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-32

  Mishima, Kazuhiko ^a   Asai, Akio ^a   Kadomatsu, Kenji ^b   Ino, Yasushi ^c   Nomura, Kazuhiro ^c   Narita, Yoshitaka ^a   Muramatsu, Takashi ^b   Kirino, Takaaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Astrocytoma; Midkine; Pleiotrophin

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASTROCYTOMA; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030770602     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00619-8     Document Type: Article

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