Differences and relationships of thymidine phosphorylase expression in tumor-associated macrophages and cancer cells in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-73

  Koide, N ^a   Nishio, A ^a   Hiraguri, M ^a   Kishimoto, K ^a   Nakamura, T ^a   Adachi, W ^a   Amano, J ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; CD68 ANTIGEN; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67; PLATELET DERIVED ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MONOCYTE; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STROMA CELL; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR PROMOTION;

ANTIGENS, CD; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MACROPHAGES; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036317170     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2050.2002.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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