Can chymase-positive mast cells play a role in the progression of gastric cancer via angiogenesis?

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 260-262

  Özdemir, Öner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CHYMASE; GELATINASE B; HISTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 8; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAST CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

CHYMASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MAST CELLS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33747889949     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20570     Document Type: Letter

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