Validation of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) antibodies for immunohistochemical localization of VEGF in tissue sections: Expression of vegf in the human endometrium

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 402-408

  Zhang, Lyna ^a,b   Scott, Prudence A E ^a   Turley, Helen ^a   Leek, Russell ^a   Lewis, Claire E ^c   Gatter, Kevin C ^a   Harris, Adrian L ^a   Mackenzie, Ian Z ^b   Rees, Margaret C P ^b   Bicknell, Roy ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYMPHOKINES; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; TRANSFECTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031822227     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199808)185:4<402::AID-PATH112>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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