Angiogenesis of AFP producing gastric carcinoma: Correlation with frequent liver metastasis and its inhibition by anti-AFP antibody

Oncology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 809-813

  Takahashi, Yutaka ^a   Ohta, Takahito ^a   Mai, Masayoshi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti fetoprotein antibody; Gastric carcinoma; Liver metastasis; Vascular endothelial growth factor; fetoprotein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN A;

AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CARCINOMA; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION; XENOGRAFT;

AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOOD VESSELS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 16544387834     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.11.4.809     Document Type: Article

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