Medicine

Secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor in ovarian cancer.

A. Santin, P. Hermonat, A. Ravaggi, A. Ravaggi, Martin J. Cannon, S. Pecorelli, G. Parham

1999EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY

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Analysis and quantification of VEGF secretion in several fresh and established human ovarian carcinoma cell lines in vitro and in vivo suggest that this factor may play a crucial role in the genesis of ascitic fluid accumulation, angiogenesis and tumor induced immunosuppression in ovarian cancer patients.

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SANTIN, A., et al. Secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor in ovarian cancer. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY, 1999, 20 3: 177–81.