Friends or foes - Bipolar effects of the tumour stroma in cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 839-849

  Mueller, Margareta M ^a   Fusenig, Norbert E ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ANTIBODY; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BEVACIZUMAB; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; DESMIN; ENDOSTATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBRONECTIN; FUMAGILLOL CHLOROACETYLCARBAMATE; GROWTH FACTOR; INTEGRIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; MUTAGENIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TENASCIN; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; TRASTUZUMAB; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VIMENTIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GENOME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KERATINOCYTE; KIDNEY CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STROMA; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 8144228952     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1477     Document Type: Review

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