Oedema extension in cerebral metastasis and correlation with the expression of nitric oxide synthase isozymes (NOS I-III)

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1 A, 2000, Pages 305-310

  Ludwig, H C ^a   Ahkavan Shigari, R ^a   Rausch, S ^a   Schallock, K ^a   Quentin, C ^a   Ziegler, D ^a   Bockermann, V ^a   Markakis, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral metastasis; Macrophages; NOS I III; Oedema

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; ISOENZYME; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AUTOANTIGENS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYMES; LYMPHOKINES; MACROPHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROGLIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0034078123     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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