Spontaneous apoptosis and proliferation in human pancreatic cancer

Pancreas

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 117-122

  Meggiato, Tamara ^a   Calabrese, Fiorella ^a   Valente, Marialuisa ^a   Favaretto, Elisabetta ^a   Baliello, Elisabetta ^a   Del Favero, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Sezione di Gastroenterologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Pancreatic cancer; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NICK END LABELING; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034002871     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-200003000-00002     Document Type: Article

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