Lymphatic endothelium and Kaposi's sarcoma spindle cells detected by antibodies against the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1599-1604

  Jussila, Lotta ^a   Valtola, Reija ^a   Partanen, Taina A ^a   Salven, Petri ^b   Heikkilä, Päivi ^a   Matikainen, Marja Terttu ^c   Renkonen, Risto ^a   Kaipainen, Arja ^a   Detmar, Michael ^d   Tschachler, Erwin ^e   Alitalo, Riitta ^a   Alitalo, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIUM, LYMPHATIC; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-3;

EID: 0032522478     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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