Tissue detection of natural killer cells in colorectal adenocarcinoma

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Papanikolaou, Ioannis S ^a   Lazaris, Andreas Ch ^b   Apostolopoulos, Periklis ^b   Kavantzas, Nikos ^b   Papas, Maria G ^c   Mavrogiannis, Christos ^a   Patsouris, Efstratios S ^b   Archimandritis, Athanasios ^b  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD57 ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; FC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISCERAL METASTASIS; ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD57; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, IGG;

EID: 10444223740     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-4-20     Document Type: Article

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