Structural examination of tryptase- and chymase-positive mast cells in livers, containing metastases from gastrointestinal cancers

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 611-620

  Gulubova, Maya Vladova ^a  

^a TRAKIA UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Chymase; Colorectal cancer; Gall bladder cancer; Gastric cancer; Liver metastasis; Mast cells; Pancreatic cancer; Tryptase

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; SUBSTANCE P; TRYPTASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GRANULE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERITONEUM MAST CELL; PORTAL VEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

AGED; CHYMASES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRYPTASES;

EID: 0344873646     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027310827655     Document Type: Article

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