Potential mechanisms regulating the extracellular activities of basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF‐2)

Requirement of Heparan Sulfate for bFGF-Mediated Fibroblast Growth and Myoblast Differentiation

1991 • 1,507 citations

The Fgf Family of Growth Factors and Oncogenes

1992 • 1,164 citations

Endothelial cell-derived basic fibroblast growth factor: synthesis and deposition into subendothelial extracellular matrix.

1987 • 1,045 citations

A heparin-binding angiogenic protein--basic fibroblast growth factor--is stored within basement membrane.

1988 • 892 citations

Heparin is required for cell-free binding of basic fibroblast growth factor to a soluble receptor and for mitogenesis in whole cells.

1992 • 634 citations

A dual receptor system is required for basic fibroblast growth factor activity

1991 • 589 citations

Distribution of basic fibroblast growth factor in the 18-day rat fetus: localization in the basement membranes of diverse tissues.

1990 • 533 citations

Role of basic fibroblast growth factor in vascular lesion formation.

1991 • 521 citations

Fibroblast growth factors are present in the extracellular matrix produced by endothelial cells invitro: Implications for a role of heparinase-like enzymes in the neovascular response

1987 • 416 citations

Cloning and characterization of an androgen-induced growth factor essential for the androgen-dependent growth of mouse mammary carcinoma cells.

1992 • 404 citations

Molecular Cloning of a Novel Cytokine cDNA Encoding the Ninth Member of the Fibroblast Growth Factor Family, which has a Unique Secretion Property

1993 • 390 citations

Basic fibroblast growth factor fused to a signal peptide transforms cells

1988 • 379 citations

Molecular cloning of a novel cytokine cDNA encoding the ninth member of the fibroblast growth factor family, which has a unique secretion property.

1993 • 287 citations

Elevated Levels of the Angiogenic Peptide Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Urine of Bladder Cancer Patients

1993 • 246 citations

Multiple Forms of bFGF: Differential Nuclear and Cell Surface Localization

1991 • 210 citations

Fibroblast growth factors

1989 • 202 citations

The Fate of Intravenously Administered bFGF and the Effect of Heparin

1989 • 158 citations

Phospholipase C release of basic fibroblast growth factor from human bone marrow cultures as a biologically active complex with a phosphatidylinositol-anchored heparan sulfate proteoglycan.

1991 • 145 citations

Altered Distribution of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Diabetic Retinopathy

1991 • 127 citations

Different Members of the Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Family Are Specific to Distinct Cell Types in the Developing Chicken Embryo

1993 • 104 citations

Immunolocalization of basic fibroblast growth factor to the micro vasculature of human brain tumors

1992 • 100 citations

Addition of growth hormone secretion signal to basic fibroblast growth factor results in cell transformation and secretion of aberrant forms of the protein.

1988 • 98 citations

Antitumor activity of basic fibroblast growth factor-saporin mitotoxin in vitro and in vivo.

1992 • 64 citations

Phosphorylation of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor by a Protein Kinase Associated with the Outer Surface of a Target Cell

1991 • 37 citations

Mitotoxins: Growth factor-targeted cytotoxic molecules

1990 • 34 citations

BHK-21-derived cell lines that produce basic fibroblast growth factor, but not parental BHK-21 cells, initiate neuronal differentiation of neural crest progenitors

1992 • 29 citations

Fibroblast growth factors: what's in a name?

1993 • 21 citations