Clinical Significance of Hepatocyte Growth Factor and Its Specific Receptor c-Met Expression in Colorectal Cancer Progression

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-146

  Hashimoto, Takuzo ^a   Saito, Noboru ^a   Kameoka, Shingo ^a   Shibata, Noriyuld ^a   Kobayashi, Makio ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Met; Colorectal cancer; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Hepatocyte growth factor; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLON SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROLOGY; TISSUE LEVEL; VEIN;

EID: 1842733950     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.37.139     Document Type: Article

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