Expression of angiogenic factors in neurofibromas

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 412-417

  Kawachi, Yasuhiro ^a   Xu, Xuezhu ^a   Ichikawa, Eiko ^a   Imakado, Sumihisa ^a   Otsuka, Fujio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenic factor; Basic fibroblast growth factor; Neurofibroma; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN TUMOR; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANGIOGENIC PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-SIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 0042564652     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0625.2003.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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