Mast Cells Can Secrete Vascular Permeability Factor/ Vascular Endothelial Cell Growth Factor and Exhibit Enhanced Release after Immunoglobulin E–dependent Upregulation of Fcε Receptor I Expression

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1997 • 4,359 citations

Tumor Cells Secrete a Vascular Permeability Factor That Promotes Accumulation of Ascites Fluid

1983 • 3,942 citations

Heterozygous embryonic lethality induced by targeted inactivation of the VEGF gene

1996 • 3,664 citations

Vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial growth factor, microvascular hyperpermeability, and angiogenesis.

1995 • 3,139 citations

Interleukin 6 Induces the Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

1996 • 1,031 citations

Vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor expression in a mouse model of retinal neovascularization.

1995 • 1,021 citations

Expression of vascular permeability factor (vascular endothelial growth factor) by epidermal keratinocytes during wound healing.

1992 • 880 citations

Vascular permeability factor (VPF, VEGF) in tumor biology

1993 • 839 citations

Vascular endothelial growth factor is induced in response to transforming growth factor-beta in fibroblastic and epithelial cells.

1994 • 702 citations

Monoclonal dinitrophenyl-specific murine IgE antibody: preparation, isolation, and characterization.

1980 • 653 citations

The kit Ligand, Stem Cell Factor

1993 • 653 citations

The mast cells

1965 • 520 citations

Reappearance of an embryonic pattern of fibronectin splicing during wound healing in the adult rat.

1989 • 489 citations

Vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial growth factor:A multifunctional angiogenic cytokine

1997 • 474 citations

IgE Enhances Mouse Mast Cell FcεRI Expression In Vitro and In Vivo: Evidence for a Novel Amplification Mechanism in IgE-dependent Reactions

1997 • 448 citations

Mast cell heparin stimulates migration of capillary endothelial cells in vitro.

1980 • 445 citations

Vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor expression in the rat uterus: rapid stimulation by estrogen correlates with estrogen-induced increases in uterine capillary permeability and growth.

1993 • 437 citations

Hypoxic stimulation of vascular endothelial growth factor expression in vitro and in vivo.

1994 • 433 citations

Human mast cells stimulate vascular tube formation. Tryptase is a novel, potent angiogenic factor.

1997 • 428 citations

Ca(2+)-dependent and Ca(2+)-independent isozymes of protein kinase C mediate exocytosis in antigen-stimulated rat basophilic RBL-2H3 cells. Reconstitution of secretory responses with Ca2+ and purified isozymes in washed permeabilized cells.

1993 • 369 citations

Release of both preformed and newly synthesized tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha)/cachectin by mouse mast cells stimulated via the Fc epsilon RI. A mechanism for the sustained action of mast cell-derived TNF-alpha during IgE-dependent biological responses.

1991 • 369 citations

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

1990 • 368 citations

Vascular endothelial growth factor. Regulation by cell differentiation and activated second messenger pathways.

1992 • 355 citations

Synthesis, Storage, and Release of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor/Vascular Permeability Factor (VEGF/VPF) by Human Mast Cells: Implications for the Biological Significance of VEGF₂₀₆

1998 • 339 citations

Mast cells are a major source of basic fibroblast growth factor in chronic inflammation and cutaneous hemangioma.

1995 • 311 citations

Mediators of immediate hypersensitivity

1983 • 293 citations

Pathogenesis of ascites tumor growth: vascular permeability factor, vascular hyperpermeability, and ascites fluid accumulation.

1995 • 280 citations

Identification, purification, and characterization of a mast cell-associated cytolytic factor related to tumor necrosis factor.

1987 • 245 citations

Mast‐cell‐deficient W/W^v mice exhibit A decreased rate of tumor angiogenesis

1988 • 216 citations

Mast cells in hemangiomas and vascular malformations.

1982 • 207 citations

Promotion of mouse fibroblast collagen gene expression by mast cells stimulated via the Fc epsilon RI. Role for mast cell-derived transforming growth factor beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha.

1994 • 190 citations

Mast Cells in Hemangiomas and Vascular Malformations

1982 • 189 citations

The Skin in Mastocytosis

1991 • 146 citations

Differential Release of Mast Cell Interleukin-6 Via c-kit

1997 • 125 citations

Regulation of angiogenesis: A new function of heparin

1985 • 104 citations

Secretion of TNF from a rat mast cell line is a brefeldin A-sensitive and a calcium/protein kinase C-regulated process.

1994 • 85 citations

Production of macrophage inflammatory protein-1alpha by human mast cells: increased anti-IgE-dependent secretion after IgE-dependent enhancement of mast cell IgE-binding ability.

1997 • 83 citations

The role of mast cells in wound healing.

1988 • 76 citations

Histamine, mast cells and ovarian function

1989 • 71 citations

Stem-cell factor, the kit ligand, induces direct degranulation of rat peritoneal mast cells in vitro and in vivo: dependence of the in vitro effect on period of culture and comparisons of stem-cell factor with other mast cell-activating agents.

1995 • 68 citations

Arthritis and mast cell activation

1990 • 64 citations

Detection of mouse mast cell-associated protease mRNA. Heparinase treatment greatly improves RT-PCR of tissues containing mast cell heparin.

1995 • 48 citations

Mast Cell Kinetics during Tumor Growth

1990 • 13 citations