Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C and VEGF-D in early gastric carcinoma: Correlation with clinicopathological parameters

Cancer Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-90

  Onogawa, Seiji ^a   Kitadai, Yasuhiko ^a   Amioka, Toru ^a   Kodama, Michiyo ^a   Cho, Songde ^a   Kuroda, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ochiumi, Takehiko ^a   Kimura, Shigeru ^a   Kuwai, Toshio ^a   Tanaka, Shinji ^b   Chayama, Kazuaki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; Lymphangiogenesis; VEGF C; VEGF D

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPH FLOW; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SUBMUCOSA;

CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR D;

EID: 21744446879     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.12.030     Document Type: Article

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