Inhibition of vascular endothelial cell growth factor suppresses the in vivo growth of human prostate tumors

Urologic Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-10

  Kirschenbaum, Alexander ^a   Wang, Jin Ping ^a   Ren, Meiyue ^a   Schiff, Jonathan D ^a   Aaronson, Stuart A ^a   Droller, Michael J ^a   Ferrara, Napoleone ^a   Holland, James F ^a   Levine, Alice C ^a,b,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cancer, prostate; Stroma, vascular endothelial cell growth factor, human

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030695024     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1078-1439(97)00001-X     Document Type: Article

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