Integrins in angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 604-617

  Avraamides, Christie J ^a   Garmy Susini, Barbara ^a   Varner, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABEGRIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CILENGITIDE; CNTO 95; DACARBAZINE; INTEGRIN; LAMININ BINDING PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY LM 609; N ACETYLPROLYLHISTIDYLSERYLCYSTEINYLASPARAGINE AMIDE; VOLOCIXIMAB;

ANGIOGENESIS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MELANOMA; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 47949114114     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2353     Document Type: Review

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