Cyclooxygenase-2 expression is related to prostaglandin biosynthesis and angiogenesis in human gastric cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 135-138

  Uefuji, Kazuhiko ^a   Ichikura, Takashi ^a   Mochizuki, Hidetaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DINOPROSTONE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033971808     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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