Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Therapeutic paradigm of dual targeting VEGF and PDGF for effectively treating FGF-2 off-target tumors

  • Kayoko Hosaka,
  • Yunlong Yang,
  • Takahiro Seki,
  • Qiqiao Du,
  • Xu Jing,
  • Xingkang He,
  • Jieyu Wu,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Hiromasa Morikawa,
  • Masaki Nakamura,
  • Martin Scherzer,
  • Xiaoting Sun,
  • Yuanfu Xu,
  • Tao Cheng,
  • Xuri Li,
  • Xialin Liu,
  • Qi Li,
  • Yizhi Liu,
  • An Hong,
  • Yuguo Chen,
  • Yihai Cao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17525-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Anti-VEGF therapy has many limitations that might be resolved by using combination treatment approaches. Here, the authors demonstrate that the dual-targeting of VEGF and PDGF is required for targeting resistant FGF2+ tumors which depend on the recruitment of pericytes on tumor microvessels.