Expression of vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial growth factor by melanoma cells increases tumor growth, angiogenesis, and experimental metastasis

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 172-181

  Claffey, Kevin P ^a   Brown, Lawrence F ^a   Del Aguila, Luis F ^a   Tognazzi, Kathi ^a   Yeo, Kiang Teck ^a   Manseau, Eleanor J ^a   Dvorak, Harold F ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

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