Spontaneous apoptosis is inversely related to intratumoral microvessel density in gastric carcinoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 221-224

  Lu, Caide ^a   Tanigawa, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

APOPTOSIS; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0031023710     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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