Halting the interaction between vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors attenuates liver carcinogenesis in mice

Hepatology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1517-1524

  Yoshiji, Hitoshi ^a   Kuriyama, Shigeki ^b   Yoshii, Junichi ^a   Ikenaka, Yasuhide ^a   Noguchi, Ryuichi ^a   Hicklin, Daniel J ^c   Wu, Yan ^c   Yanase, Koji ^a   Namisaki, Tadashi ^a   Kitade, Mitsuteru ^a   Yamazaki, Masaharu ^a   Tsujinoue, Hirohisa ^a   Masaki, Tsutomu ^b   Fukui, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1 ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2 ANTIBODY;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS INHIBITION; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 2542523903     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20218     Document Type: Article

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