Clinical significance of Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) expression in gastric cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 54, Issue 76, 2007, Pages 1049-1052

  Yamada, Akiteru ^a   Saito, Noboru ^a   Kameoka, Shingo ^a   Kobayashi, Makio ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autocrine theory; Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF); Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR); Gastric cancer; Immunohistology; Serum EGF

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROLOGY; STOMACH CANCER;

CARCINOMA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34347359800     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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