Noninvasive dynamic fluorescence imaging of human melanomas reveals that targeted inhibition of bFGF or FGFR-1 in melanoma cells blocks tumor growth by apoptosis

Molecular Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-112

  Valesky, Marianne ^a   Spang, Aaron J ^a   Fisher, Gregory W ^a   Farkas, Daniel L ^a   Becker, Dorothea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; FLUOROCHROME; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MELANOMA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036049077     PISSN: 10761551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03402080     Document Type: Article

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