Nitric oxide synthase expression in human bladder cancer and its relation to angiogenesis

Urological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 232-235

  Lin, Zhen ^a   Chen, Shiping ^a   Ye, Chuanzhong ^a   Zhu, Shaoxing ^a  

^a FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Immunohistochemistry; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER MUCOSA; CANCER TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH; UROTHELIUM;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0141792409     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-003-0302-9     Document Type: Article

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