Platelet and coagulation activation with vascular endothelial growth factor generation in soft tissue sarcomas

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 166-171

  Verheul, Henk M W ^a   Hoekman, Klaas ^a   Lupu, Florea ^b   Broxterman, Henk J ^a   Van Der Valk, Paul ^a   Kakkar, Ajay K ^c   Pinedo, Herbert M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b THROMBOSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; THROMBOMODULIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TURNOVER TIME;

ANTITHROMBIN III; BLOOD PLATELETS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LYMPHOKINES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLATELET ACTIVATION; SARCOMA; THROMBOMODULIN; THROMBOPLASTIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0033968571     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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