Thymidine phosphorylase expression in normal, hyperplastic and neoplastic prostates: Correlation with tumour associated macrophages, infiltrating lymphocytes, and angiogenesis

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1465-1471

  Sivridis, E ^a   Giatromanolaki, A ^a   Papadopoulos, I ^a   Gatter, K C ^b   Harris, A L ^b   Koukourakis, M I ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Infiltrating lymphocytes; Prostate carcinoma; Prostate specific antigen; Thymidine phosphorylase; Tumour associated macrophages

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; STROMA CELL;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0037029708     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600281     Document Type: Article

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