Inhibition of angiogenesis and breast cancer in mice by the microtubule inhibitors 2-methoxyestradiol and taxol

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-86

  Klauber, Nancy ^a,b   Parangi, Sareh ^a   Flynn, Evelyn ^a   Hamel, Ernest ^c   D'Amato, Robert J ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 METHOXYESTRADIOL; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; COLCHICINE; CREMOPHOR; METHYLCELLULOSE; PACLITAXEL; VASCULOTROPIN; VINCRISTINE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; CORNEAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ESTRADIOL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PACLITAXEL; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

EID: 0031015504     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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