Determination of microvessel density by quantitative real-time PCR in esophageal cancer: Correlation with histologic methods, angiogenic growth factor expression, and lymph node metastasis

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-80

  Loges, Sonja ^a   Clausen, Henning ^a   Reichelt, Uta ^a   Bubenheim, Michael ^a   Erbersdobler, Andreas ^a   Schurr, Paulus ^a   Yekebas, Emre ^a   Schuch, Gunter ^a   Izbicki, Jakob ^a   Pantel, Klaus ^a   Bokemeyer, Carsten ^a   Fiedler, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; CD146 ANTIGEN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD146; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA; DNA PRIMERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33846296988     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1324     Document Type: Article

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