Endothelial cell Bcl-2 and lymph node metastasis in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma

Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 124-130

  Tarquinio, Sandra B C ^a,b   Zhang, Zhaocheng ^b   Neiva, Kathleen G ^b   Polverini, Peter J ^c   Nör, Jacques E ^b,c,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Biomarkers; Head and neck cancer; Lymphangiogenesis; Oral cancer; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER TISSUE; CARCINOMA CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UPREGULATION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMONES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, LYMPHATIC; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLINES; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-3;

EID: 84856443793     PISSN: 09042512     EISSN: 16000714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.2011.01081.x     Document Type: Article

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