Expression and distribution of vascular endothelial growth factor protein in human brain tumors

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 109-117

  Pietsch, Torsten ^a   Valter, Markus M ^a   Wolf, Helmut K ^a   Von Deimling, Andreas ^a   Su Huang, H J ^b   Cavenee, Webster K ^b   Wiestler, Otmar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Astrocytoma; Brain tumor; Vascular endothelial growth factor; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MENINGIOMA; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EPENDYMOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031035753     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050591     Document Type: Article

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