VEGF in signaling and disease: beyond discovery and development

RS Apte, DS Chen, N Ferrara - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The discovery of vascular endothelial-derived growth factor (VEGF) has revolutionized our
understanding of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis during development and physiological …

Vessel co-option in cancer

EA Kuczynski, PB Vermeulen, F Pezzella… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
All solid tumours require a vascular supply in order to progress. Although the ability to
induce angiogenesis (new blood vessel growth) has long been regarded as essential to this …

Metronomic capecitabine as adjuvant therapy in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a multicentre, open-label, parallel-group, randomised …

YP Chen, X Liu, Q Zhou, KY Yang, F Jin, XD Zhu, M Shi… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma have a high
risk of disease relapse, despite a high proportion of patients attaining complete clinical …

Molecular mechanism of VEGF and its role in pathological angiogenesis

A Ahmad, MI Nawaz - Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last seven decades, a significant scientific contribution took place in the delineation
of the implications of vascular endothelial‐derived growth factor (VEGF) in the processes of …

Ten years of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy

N Ferrara, AP Adamis - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2016 - nature.com
The targeting of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), a crucial regulator of both
normal and pathological angiogenesis, has revealed innovative therapeutic approaches in …

Continuation of bevacizumab after first progression in metastatic colorectal cancer (ML18147): a randomised phase 3 trial

J Bennouna, J Sastre, D Arnold, P Österlund… - The lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Bevacizumab plus fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy is standard treatment
for first-line and bevacizumab-naive second-line metastatic colorectal cancer. We assessed …

Mechanisms and therapeutic potentials of cancer immunotherapy in combination with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy

WD Yu, G Sun, J Li, J Xu, X Wang - Cancer letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Immunotherapies based on T cells have gained significant success in the treatment of
diverse cancers, however, several limitations also exist, including low response, acquired …

[HTML][HTML] Vinca alkaloids

M Moudi, R Go, CYS Yien, M Nazre - International journal of …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vinca alkaloids are a subset of drugs obtained from the Madagascar periwinkle plant. They
are naturally extracted from the pink periwinkle plant, Catharanthus roseus G. Don and have …

The biology of VEGF and its receptors

N Ferrara, HP Gerber, J LeCouter - Nature medicine, 2003 - nature.com
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key regulator of physiological angiogenesis
during embryogenesis, skeletal growth and reproductive functions. VEGF has also been …

Tumorigenesis and the angiogenic switch

G Bergers, LE Benjamin - Nature reviews cancer, 2003 - nature.com
It has become evident that we cannot understand tumour growth without considering
components of the stromal microenvironment, such as the vasculature. At the same time, the …