Vascular endothelial growth factors, angiogenesis, and survival in human ileal enterochromaffin cell carcinoids

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 402-415

  Besig, Sophie ^a   Voland, Petra ^a   Baur, Dorothee M ^a   Perren, Aurel ^a   Prinz, Christian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Carcinoid; Enterochromaffin cell; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN B; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEAL ENTEROCHROMAFFIN CELL CARCINOID; ILEUM CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING; STOMACH MUCOSA; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOID TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; ENTEROCHROMAFFIN CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 71849106110     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000245900     Document Type: Article

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