## Background: Angiogenesis is a prerequisite to cancer growth and metastasis and is induced by a variety of angiogenic factors, including platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (pdecgf). the authors investigated the expression of pdecgf in 58 initial primary bladder carcinomas. ## Method
Aberrant production of gliostatin/platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor in rheumatoid synovium
β Scribed by Masanori Takeuchi; Takanobu Otsuka; Nobuo Matsui; Kiyofumi Asai; Takayoshi Hirano; Akihiko Moriyama; Ichiro Isobe; Yaman Z. Eksioglu; Kohei Matsukawa; Taiji Kato; Toyohiro Tada
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1003 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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