Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Its Receptor, KDR, Correlates with Vascularity, Metastasis, and Proliferation of Human Colon Cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 1995, Pages 3969-3972

  Takahashi, Yutaka ^a,a   Kitadai, Yasuhiko ^a   Bucana, Corazon D ^a   Ellis, Lee M ^a   Cleary, Karen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; COLON BLOOD FLOW; COLON CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOMA; ANGIOGENESIS FACTOR; CELL DIVISION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMAN; LYMPHOKINES; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 84970070220     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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