Vascular endothelial growth factor promotes tumor dissemination by a mechanism distinct from its effect on primary tumor growth

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 921-924

  Melnyk, Ostap ^a   Shuman, Marc A ^a   Kim, K Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOKINES; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0030059075     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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