Human von Willebrand factor (factor VIII-related antigen) in glial neoplastic cells of brain gliomas

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-27

  Nowacki, Przemysław ^a   Tabaka, Justyna ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

FVIII rA; Glial cells; Gliomas; von Willebrand factor

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GLIA CELL; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0038025572     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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