The role of angiogenesis in cancer treatment

Biomedicines

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Rajabi, Mehdi ^a   Mousa, Shaker A ^a  

^a ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti angiogenesis; Anti integrin; Anti VEGF; Endothelial cells; Integrin; Matrix metalloproteinase; Pathological angiogenesis; Pericyte; Physiological angiogenesis; Pro angiogenesis; Tyrosine kinase inhibitors; Vascular growth factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031305807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22279059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines5020034     Document Type: Review

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