The effect of a thymidine phosphorylase inhibitor on angiogenesis and apoptosis in tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1911-1916

  Matsushita, Shigeto ^a   Nitanda, Takao ^a   Furukawa, Tatsuhiko ^a   Sumizawa, Tomoyuki ^a   Tani, Ayako ^a   Nishimoto, Kengo ^a   Akiba, Suminori ^a   Miyadera, Kazutaka ^b   Fukushima, Masakazu ^b   Yamada, Yuji ^b   Yoshida, Hiroki ^a   Kanzaki, Tamotsu ^a   Akiyama, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TAIHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COLON TUMOR; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; KB CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PYRROLIDINES; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; URACIL;

EID: 0033561512     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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