Significance of platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor in the angiogenesis of human gastric cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 429-434

  Takahashi, Yutaka ^a   Bucana, Corazon D ^b   Akagi, Yoshito ^b   Liu, Wenbiao ^b   Cleary, Karen R ^b   Mai, Masayoshi ^a   Ellis, Lee M ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL INFILTRATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031938207     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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