Relationships between the expression of thymidylate synthase, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, and orotate phosphoribosyltransferase and cell proliferative activity and 5-fluorouracil sensitivity in colorectal carcinoma

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 72-78

  Fujii, Ryuta ^a   Seshimo, Akiyoshi ^a   Kameoka, Shingo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Collagen gel droplet embedded culture drug sensitivity test; Colon cancer; Ki 67; Orotate phosphoribosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROPYRIMIDINE DEHYDROGENASE; FLUOROURACIL; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CELL DIVISION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIHYDROURACIL DEHYDROGENASE (NADP); DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0037660429     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101470300013     Document Type: Article

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