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1990 • 12,897 citations

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1989 • 4,988 citations

Failure of blood-island formation and vasculogenesis in Flk-1-deficient mice

1995 • 3,977 citations

Heterozygous embryonic lethality induced by targeted inactivation of the VEGF gene

1996 • 3,664 citations

Role of the Flt-1 receptor tyrosine kinase in regulating the assembly of vascular endothelium

1995 • 2,650 citations

Vascular Permeability Factor, an Endothelial Cell Mitogen Related to PDGF

1989 • 2,090 citations

The fms -Like Tyrosine Kinase, a Receptor for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

1992 • 2,042 citations

High affinity VEGF binding and developmental expression suggest Flk-1 as a major regulator of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis

1993 • 1,961 citations

Different signal transduction properties of KDR and Flt1, two receptors for vascular endothelial growth factor.

1994 • 1,661 citations

Identification of the KDR tyrosine kinase as a receptor for vascular endothelial cell growth factor

1992 • 1,528 citations

The Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Family: Identification of a Fourth Molecular Species and Characterization of Alternative Splicing of RNA

1991 • 1,375 citations

The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) isoforms: differential deposition into the subepithelial extracellular matrix and bioactivity of extracellular matrix-bound VEGF.

1993 • 1,114 citations

Placenta growth factor. Potentiation of vascular endothelial growth factor bioactivity, in vitro and in vivo, and high affinity binding to Flt-1 but not to Flk-1/KDR.

1994 • 1,104 citations

Initial assessment of human gene diversity and expression patterns based upon 83 million nucleotides of cDNA sequence.

1995 • 804 citations

Vascular endothelial growth factor B, a novel growth factor for endothelial cells.

1996 • 788 citations

Fetal liver kinase 1 is a receptor for vascular endothelial growth factor and is selectively expressed in vascular endothelium.

1993 • 764 citations

A receptor tyrosine kinase cDNA isolated from a population of enriched primitive hematopoietic cells and exhibiting close genetic linkage to c-kit.

1991 • 516 citations

Isolation and characterization of a newly identified endothelial cell mitogen produced by AtT-20 cells.

1989 • 497 citations

Platelet-derived growth factor: mechanism of action and possible in vivo function.

1990 • 491 citations

Vascular endothelial growth factor-related protein: a ligand and specific activator of the tyrosine kinase receptor Flt4.

1996 • 406 citations

Amino acid and cDNA sequences of a vascular endothelial cell mitogen that is homologous to platelet-derived growth factor.

1990 • 368 citations

Purification and Characterization of a Naturally Occurring Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor · Placenta Growth Factor Heterodimer

1995 • 302 citations

In the human fetus, vascular endothelial growth factor is expressed in epithelial cells and myocytes, but not vascular endothelium: implications for mode of action.

1994 • 196 citations

The Balbiani ring 3 gene in Chironomus tentans has a diverged repetitive structure split by many introns

1990 • 41 citations

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1990 • 32 citations