Neuroblastoma, apoptosis, and growth factors

American Surgeon

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-31

  Beierle, Elizabeth A ^a   Dai, Wei ^a   Langham Jr , Max R ^a   Chen, Mike K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; LYMPHOKINE; PROTEIN BCL 2; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; NEUROBLASTOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; NEUROBLASTOMA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0037264394     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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