Immunohistochemical localization of thymidine phosphorylase in gastric cancer: Is there a role of the differential expression in tumor cells and associated stromal cells?

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 5 B, 2006, Pages 3899-3903

  Liakakos, Theodore ^a   Troupis, Theodore ^a,d   Ghiconti, Ioanna ^b   Triantafyllidis, Spyros ^b   Macheras, Anastasios ^a   Karatzas, Gabriel ^a   Pavlakis, Kitty ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d University of Athens ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Thymidine phosphorylase; Tumor associated stromal cells

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; AVIDIN; BIOTIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STROMA CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STROMAL CELLS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

EID: 33750715095     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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