Norimichi Okada

Clinical Significance of Plasma Level of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-C in Patients with Colorectal Cancer (2008)

Miyazaki, Tatsuya, Okada, Norimichi, Ishibashi, Keiichiro, Ogata, Kyouichi, Ohsawa, Tomonori, Ishiguro, Toru, ...

Objective Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C is known to be associated with angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in various cancers. However, little is known about the clinical significance of...

Determining the Levels of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in Portal and Peripheral Blood is Useful for Predicting Liver Metastasis of Colorectal Cancer (2003)

Ishida, Hideyuki, Murata, Nobuo, Tada, Masakazu, Okada, Norimichi, Hashimoto, Daijo, Kubota, Shunichiro, ...

Background: Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is one of the MMPs that play an important role in cancer invasion and metastasis. Increased levels of MMP-9 in tumor tissue have been found to correlate...