Erythropoietin and erythropoietin receptor expression in head and neck cancer: Relationship to tumor hypoxia

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-27

  Arcasoy, Murat O ^a   Amin, Khalid ^b   Chou, Shu Chuan ^c   Haroon, Zishan A ^a   Varia, Mahesh ^c   Raleigh, James A ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR; PIMONIDAZOLE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANOXIA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGANDS; NITROIMIDAZOLES; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RECEPTORS, ERYTHROPOIETIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 11344251540     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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