Expression of TGF-alpha in neuroendocrine tumours of the distal colon and rectum

APMIS

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 931-939

  Back, Walter ^a   Rohr, Gerhard ^b   Bleyl, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Medizinische Klinik II   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colon; Growth factors; Neuroendocrine tumours; TGF alpha

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTISERUM; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 2; RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; L CELL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ENTEROENDOCRINE CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCAGON; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PANCREATIC POLYPEPTIDE; PROGLUCAGON; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

EID: 0242267014     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0463.2003.1111003.x     Document Type: Article

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