These data support the hypothesis that tumor cells of various histologies secrete VEGF, which acts as a paracrine factor to induce endothelial cell proliferation and vessel formation and mediates tumor progression.
Our results suggest a paracrine control of angiogenesis and endothelial cell proliferation that is tightly regulated and transient in the embryonic brain, switched off in the normal adult brain, and turned on in tumor cells (VEGF) and the host vasculature (VEGFR-1 and -2) during tumor progression.
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an angiogenic factor secreted by various tumors, including epithelial tumors of the ovary, and is involved in tumor progression and maintenance.
Our data provide no evidence for a causal relationship between the loss of p53 activity and increased VEGF expression that is observed during tumor progression.
Tumor progression is angiogenesis dependent, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key growth factor in this process. sVEGF concentrations in 44 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and 5 with benign liver lesions were determined with an enzyme-link immunoadsorbent assay system (ELISA).
To investigate the relationship between the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and colorectal tumour progression, we have studied VEGF expression level and splice variant pattern by semi-quantitative RT-PCR and the cellular source of VEGF expression by in situ hybrization (ISH) in a range of lesions that modelled the tumour-development pathway from normal colon to invasive colorectal adenocarcinomas.
It has been demonstrated that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is associated with tumor progression as an angiogenic factor in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)s. However, the role of other angiogenic factors such as transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha), platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (PD-ECGF), and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) are still unknown in esophageal SCCs.
Although the importance of VEGF has been shown in many human tumor types, the contribution of VEGF-C and its primary receptor flt-4 to tumor progression is less well understood.
The results of the current study demonstrated that angiogenesis develops in association with tumor progression from adenoma to noninvasive colorectal carcinoma, at least in part due to VEGF, and suggested that VEGF in m carcinomas is induced by mutant p53, although alternative mechanisms of VEGF up-regulation may exist in sm carcinomas.
These findings suggest that in conjunction with the established clinicopathologic prognostic parameters of ovarian carcinoma, VEGF expression may enhance the predictability of patients at high risk for tumour progression who are potential candidates for further aggressive therapy.
This article focuses on the role of vascular endothelial growth factor in tumor progression and on current efforts aimed at the inhibition of tumor progression through the inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor activity.
In this study, we examined the effects of all trans-retinoic acid (at-RA) on the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in human bronchioloalveolar carcinoma NCI-H322 cells to evaluate the potential of at-RA to affect tumor progression.
Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) is a key molecule for tumor progression, although it is unclear how VEGF-A expression regulates various genes.
Taken together, these findings suggest that the overexpression of cyclin D1 can confer esophageal cancer cells with enhanced malignancy through increases in anchorage-independent growth and VEGF production, and down-regulation of Fas expression, thus suggesting novel functions of the cyclin D1 protein in tumor progression.
During tamoxifen treatment, estrogen regulation is removed, and VEGF increases to levels that enhance markedly vascular permeability and reduce their perfusion function, leading to inhibition of tumor progression.
Cell-retained isoforms of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) have been reported to play an essential role in tumor progression through stromal neovascularization in malignant solid tumors.