Blood vessels in liver metastases from both sarcoma and carcinoma lack perivascular innervation and smooth muscle cells

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 484-498

  Ashraf, Shahzad ^a   Loizidou, Marilena ^a   Crowe, Rahima ^a   Turmaine, Mark ^a   Taylor, Irving ^a   Burnstock, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Athymic rat; Blood vessels; HT29; Liver innervation; Liver metastases; Liver nerves; MC28; Perivascular nerves

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GENE PRODUCT; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SUBSTANCE P; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INFUSION; HEPATIC ARTERY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; RAT; SARCOMA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, NUDE; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 0030879912     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018466608614     Document Type: Article

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