Thymidine phosphorylase expression causes both the increase of intratumoral microvessels and decrease of apoptosis in human esophageal carcinomas

Pathology International

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 158-164

  Okamoto, Eiji ^a   Osaki, Mitsuhiko ^a   Kase, Satoru ^a   Adachi, Hironobu ^a   Kaibara, Nobuaki ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Apoptosis; dThdPase; Human esophageal carcinoma; p53

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA, NEOPLASM; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0035057701     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.2001.01184.x     Document Type: Article

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