Expression level of vascular endothelial growth factor-C and -A in cultured human oral squamous cell carcinoma correlates respectively with lymphatic metastasis and angiogenesis when transplanted into nude mouse oral cavity

Oncology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 825-830

  Nakazato, Takayuki ^a   Shingaki, Susumu ^a   Kitamura, Nobutaka ^a   Saito, Chikara ^a   Kuwano, Ryozo ^b   Tachibana, Masayoshi ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymph node metastasis; Ural squamous cell carcinoma; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN B; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUTH TUMOR; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR B; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR D;

EID: 33746406456     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.15.4.825     Document Type: Article

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