Vascular endothelial growth factor is up-regulated in the early pre- malignant stage of colorectal tumour progression

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 845-850

  Wong, Maria P ^a   Cheung, Ngai ^a   Yuen, Siu T ^a   Leung, Suet Y ^a   Chung, L Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON ADENOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033010512     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990611)81:6<845::AID-IJC1>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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