Connective tissue growth factor expression in pediatric myofibroblastic tumors

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-45

  Kasaragod, Arvind B ^a   Lucia, M Scott ^a   Cabirac, Gary ^a   Grotendorst, Gary R ^b   Stenmark, Kurt R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Connective tissue growth factor; Endothelial cells; Fibroblast; Myofibroblast; Myofibroblastic tumors

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; VIMENTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HEMANGIOFIBROMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOFIBROMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MYOFIBROMATOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035133342     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100240010123     Document Type: Article

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