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Angiogenesis
Data on angiogenesis reported by A. Carrer and co-researchers
November 11th, 2008
"The development of new blood and lymphatic vessels is a crucial event for cancer growth, metastatic spread and relapse after therapy. in this work, the expression levels of chemokines, angiogenic and angiostatic factors and their receptors were determined in paired mucosal and tumour samples of patients with colorectal carcinoma and correlated with clinical and histological parameters by advanced multivariate analyses," scientists in Padriciano, Italy report. "The most important predictors to discriminate between tumour and paired normal mucosa turned out to be the levels of expression of plexin-A1 and stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1), the former overexpressed and...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-11-11)
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