Platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor/thymidine phosphorylase expression correlated with tumor angiogenesis and macrophage infiltration in colorectal cancer

Cancer Letters

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-63

  Matsumura, M ^a   Chiba, Y ^a   Lu, C ^b   Amaya, H ^a   Shimomatsuya, T ^a   Horiuchi, T ^a   Muraoka, R ^a   Tanigawa, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Macrophage infiltration; Microvessel count; Platelet derived endothelial cell growth factor thymidine phosphorylase (PD ECGF TP); Stromal cell; Tumor cell

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA CELL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STROMAL CELLS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

EID: 0032486220     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(98)00051-2     Document Type: Article

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