Thymidine phosphorylase expression is associated with both increase of intratumoral microvessels and decrease of apoptosis in human colorectal carcinomas

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 5037-5040

  Matsuura, Takahiko ^a   Kuratate, Itaru ^a   Teramachi, Kazuki ^a   Osaki, Mitsuhiko ^a   Fukuda, Yasuhiko ^b   Ito, Hisao ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA PREFECTURAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

APOPTOSIS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROCIRCULATION; MITOTIC INDEX; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0033214066     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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