High expression of endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase in peritumoral microvessels predicts increased disease-free survival in colorectal cancer

Cancer Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-114

  Mortensen, Kirsten ^a   Christensen, Ib Jarle ^b,c   Nielsen, Hans Jørgen ^c   Hansen, Ulla ^c   Larsson, Lars Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FINSEN LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colon; Endothelial cells; Microvessels; Nitric oxide; NOS; Rectum

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; METASTASIS; MICROVASCULATURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 6944249317     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.05.025     Document Type: Article

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