BACKGROUND. In 1983, Pretlow et al. reported one classical study of the prognostic influence of eosinophil infiltration in human colon carcinoma. Since then, very few reports have analyzed this supposed prognostic influence in this type of tumor, although there have been several reports of other typ
Immunomodulatory effects of tumor-associated fibroblasts in colorectal-tumor development
✍ Scribed by Blandine Lieubeau; Marie-Françoise Heymann; Frédéric Henry; Isabelle Barbieux; Khaled Meflah; Marc Grégoire
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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