Human lactiferous mammary gland cells produce vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and express the VEGF receptors, Flt-1 and KDR/Flk-1

Cytokine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 191-198

  Nishimura, Shoko ^a,b   Maeno, Nobuaki ^b   Matsuo, Katsuhiko ^c   Nakajima, Toshihiro ^d   Kitajima, Isao ^e   Saito, Hidehiko ^a   Maruyama, Ikuro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Base Technology Center   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e TOYAMA MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mammary gland epithelial cells; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY MV 303; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 125; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 189; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR FLT 1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KDR FLK 1; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN 165; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; FLT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ISOPROTEIN; LYMPHOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; SCLEROPROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A, HUMAN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; BREAST CELL; BREAST MILK; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LACTATION; MILK LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ADULT; AGE; ANGIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREAST; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; METABOLISM; SERODIAGNOSIS; TIME; UMBILICAL VEIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; MILK, HUMAN; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; UMBILICAL VEINS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0035997257     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cyto.2002.1032     Document Type: Article

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