Up-Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Its Cognate Receptors in a Rat Glioma Model of Tumor Angiogenesis

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 1993, Pages 5822-5827

  Ullrich, A ^b   Millauer, B ^b   Risau, W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; GLIOSARCOMA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLIOMA; LYMPHOKINES; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0027432324     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
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