The role of thymidine phosphorylase expression in the invasiveness of gastric carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2220-2227

  Shimaoka, Shunji ^a   Matsushita, Shigeto ^b   Nitanda, Takao ^b   Matsuda, Akio ^a   Nioh, Tatsuyuki ^a   Suenaga, Toyokuni ^a   Nishimata, Yoshito ^a   Akiba, Suminori ^c   Akiyama, Shin Ichi ^b   Nishimata, Hiroto ^a  

^a Nanpuh Hospital   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Gastric carcinoma; Prognosis; Thymidine phosphorylase; Tumor invasiveness; Tumor associated macrophage

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; FACTOR VIII; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

EID: 17144438934     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(20000515)88:10<2220::AID-CNCR4>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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