Levels of vascular endothelial growth factor, hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor and basic fibroblast growth factor in human gliomas and their relation to angiogenesis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 10-18

  Schmidt, Nils Ole ^a   Westphal, Manfred ^a   Hagel, Christian ^a   Ergün, Süleyman ^a   Stavrou, Dimitrios ^a   Rosen, Eliot M ^b   Lamszus, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOTAXIS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLIOMA; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032941495     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990219)84:1<10::AID-IJC3>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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