Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptors is regulated in eyes with intra-ocular tumours

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 306-312

  Stitt, Alan W ^a   Simpson, David A C ^a   Boocock, Christine ^b   Gardiner, Thomas A ^a   Murphy, Grainne M ^a   Archer, Desmond B ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flt; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; KDR; Melanoma; Retina; Retinoblastoma; VEGF

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR TUMOR; IRIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MUELLER CELL; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINOBLASTOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RETINA; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA; UVEA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031785376     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(1998110)186:3<306::AID-PATH183>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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