International Journal of Molecular Sciences (Nov 2018)

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, from Basic Research to Clinical Applications

  • Kurt Ballmer-Hofer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19123750
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 12
p. 3750

Abstract

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Judah Folkman’s landmark discovery in the 1970s showing that tumors, growing beyond a few millimeters in diameter, depend on de novo vascularization triggered by specific growth factors released by tumor cells encountering hypoxia [...]

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