Receptors for the liver synthesized growth factors IGF-1 and HGF/SF in uveal melanoma: Intercorrelation and prognostic implications

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 86, Issue THESIS 4, 2008, Pages 20-25

  Economou, Mario A ^a,b   All Ericsson, Charlotta ^a,b   Bykov, Vladimir ^b   Girnita, Leonard ^b   Bartolazzi, Armando ^c   Larsson, Olle ^b   Seregard, Stefan ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

c Met; IGF 1R; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LIVER PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME; UVEA MELANOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; STAINING AND LABELING; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 56849116168     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2008.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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