Tumor growth enhancing effects of vascular endothelial growth factor are associated with increased nitric oxide synthase activity and inhibition of apoptosis in human breast carcinoma xenografts

Cancer Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-101

  Harris, Steven R ^a   Schoeffner, Daniel J ^a   Yoshiji, Hitoshi ^a   Thorgeirsson, Unnur P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Basement membrane; Breast carcinoma; Nitric oxide synthase; Proliferation; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR PROMOTION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYMPHOKINES; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037042174     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(01)00866-7     Document Type: Article

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