Anti-tumor and anti-metastatic effects of human-vascular-endothelial- growth-factor-neutralizing antibody on human colon and gastric carcinoma xenotransplanted orthotopically into nude mice

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 933-936

  Kanai, Toshikazu ^a   Konno, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanaka, Tatsuo ^a   Baba, Megumi ^a   Matsumoto, Keigo ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a   Yukita, Ayako ^b   Asano, Makoto ^b   Suzuki, Hideo ^b   Baba, Shozo ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Base Technology Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS INHIBITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031870765     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980911)77:6<933::AID-IJC23>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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