Normalization of tumor vasculature: an emerging concept in antiangiogenic therapy

RK Jain - Science, 2005 - science.org
Solid tumors require blood vessels for growth, and many new cancer therapies are directed
against the tumor vasculature. The widely held view is that these antiangiogenic therapies …

Molecular regulation of vessel maturation

RK Jain - Nature medicine, 2003 - nature.com
The maturation of nascent vasculature, formed by vasculogenesis or angiogenesis, requires
recruitment of mural cells, generation of an extracellular matrix and specialization of the …

Normalizing tumor vasculature with anti-angiogenic therapy: a new paradigm for combination therapy

RK Jain - Nature medicine, 2001 - nature.com
Normalizing tumor vasculature with anti-angiogenic therapy: A new paradigm for combination
therapy | Nature Medicine Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using …

Vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial growth factor: a critical cytokine in tumor angiogenesis and a potential target for diagnosis and therapy

HF Dvorak - Journal of clinical oncology, 2002 - ascopubs.org
Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A), the founding member of the vascular
permeability factor (VPF)/VEGF family of proteins, is an important angiogenic cytokine with …

AZD2171, a pan-VEGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, normalizes tumor vasculature and alleviates edema in glioblastoma patients

TT Batchelor, AG Sorensen, E di Tomaso, WT Zhang… - Cancer cell, 2007 - cell.com
Using MRI techniques, we show here that normalization of tumor vessels in recurrent
glioblastoma patients by daily administration of AZD2171—an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor …

Kinetics of vascular normalization by VEGFR2 blockade governs brain tumor response to radiation: role of oxygenation, angiopoietin-1, and matrix metalloproteinases

F Winkler, SV Kozin, RT Tong, SS Chae, MF Booth… - Cancer cell, 2004 - cell.com
The recent landmark Phase III clinical trial with a VEGF-specific antibody suggests that
antiangiogenic therapy must be combined with cytotoxic therapy for the treatment of solid …

Lymphatic metastasis in the absence of functional intratumor lymphatics

TP Padera, A Kadambi, E di Tomaso, CM Carreira… - Science, 2002 - science.org
Lymphatic metastasis contributes to mortality from solid tumors. Whether metastasizing
cancer cells reach lymph nodes via intratumor lymphatic vessels is unknown. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of lymphangiogenesis in health and disease

K Alitalo, P Carmeliet - Cancer cell, 2002 - cell.com
Studies of the last decades have revealed the importance of angiogenesis for normal growth
and for the pathogenesis of numerous diseases. Much less studied is lymphangiogenesis …

Tumor microvasculature and microenvironment: novel insights through intravital imaging in pre‐clinical models

DAI Fukumura, DG Duda, LL Munn, RK Jain - Microcirculation, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Microcirculation (2010) 17, 206–225. doi: 10.1111/j. 1549‐8719.2010. 00029. x Abstract
Intravital imaging techniques have provided unprecedented insight into tumor …

Lymphangiogenesis and cancer metastasis

SA Stacker, MG Achen, L Jussila, ME Baldwin… - Nature Reviews …, 2002 - nature.com
Lymphatic vessels are important for the spread of solid tumours, but the mechanisms that
underlie lymphatic spread and the role of lymphangiogenesis (the growth of lymphatics) in …