Production of VEGF and expression of the VEGF receptors Flt-1 and KDR in primary cultures of epithelial and stromal cells derived from breast tumours

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 80, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 898-903

  Speirs, V ^a   Atkin, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Breast; Cancer; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; LYMPHOKINES; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMAL CELLS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032897455     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6690438     Document Type: Article

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