Angiogenesis inhibition in cancer therapy: Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and their receptors: Biological functions and role in malignancy

Recent Results in Cancer Research

Volumn 180, Issue , 2010, Pages 51-81

  Appelmann, Iris ^a   Liersch, Rüediger ^b   Kessler, Torsten ^b   Mesters, Rolf M ^b   Berdel, Wolfgang E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; CANCER THERAPY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 77953223359     PISSN: 00800015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78281-0_5     Document Type: Review

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