Endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression in tumor vasculature is correlated with malignancy in human supratentorial astrocytic tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 24-29

  Iwata, Shinji ^a   Nakagawa, Kou ^a   Harada, Hironobu ^a   Oka, Yoshihisa ^a   Kumon, Yoshiaki ^a   Sakaki, Saburo ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocytic tumor; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Histological grade; Proliferative potential

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0032983320     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199907000-00006     Document Type: Article

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