Thymidine phosphorylase expression in gastric cancer in association with proliferative activity and angiogenesis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3 B, 2000, Pages 2081-2086

  Kikuyama, Shigehiro ^a,c   Inada, Takao ^b   Shimizu, Kazuhiko ^a   Miyakita, Makoto ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization Tochigi Medical Center   (Japan)

^b TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c SAISEIKAI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Gastric cancer; Microvessel count; PCNA; Thymidine phosphorylase

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAINING; STOMACH CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL DIVISION; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0033898368     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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