Relationship of vascular maturation in breast cancer blood vessels to vascular density and metastasis, assessed by expression of a novel basement membrane component, LH39

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 844-851

  Kakolyris, S ^a,d   Fox, S B ^a,e   Koukourakis, M ^b   Giatromanolaki, A ^d   Brown, N ^a   Leek, R D ^a   Taylor, M ^b   Leigh, I M ^c   Gatter, K C ^a   Harris, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^e CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Breast cancer; LH39; Vascular maturation

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT MEMBRANE ANTIBODY; CELL ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TAMOXIFEN; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0033962101     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.1999.1010     Document Type: Article

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