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1991 • 5,657 citations

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1993 • 3,605 citations

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

1995 • 3,139 citations

Cancer metastasis and angiogenesis: An imbalance of positive and negative regulation

1991 • 2,774 citations

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1991 • 959 citations

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1992 • 865 citations

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1993 • 839 citations

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1982 • 573 citations

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1988 • 538 citations

Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growt Factor and Its Receptors fit and KDR in Ovarian Carcinoma

1995 • 469 citations

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1994 • 404 citations

Markedly increased amounts of messenger RNAs for vascular endothelial growth factor and placenta growth factor in renal cell carcinoma associated with angiogenesis

1994 • 354 citations

Tumor angiogenesis is an independent prognostic indicator in primary breast carcinoma

1993 • 320 citations

Different angiogenic pathways characterize superficial and invasive bladder cancer.

1995 • 293 citations

Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its possible relation with neovascularization in human brain tumors

1995 • 271 citations

Enhancement of Tumor Growth and Vascular Density by Transfection of Vascular Endothelial Cell Growth Factor Into MCF-7 Human Breast Carcinoma Cells

1995 • 270 citations

bFGF as an autocrine growth factor for human melanomas.

1988 • 237 citations

Biology of tumor progression in human melanocytes.

1987 • 236 citations

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1993 • 209 citations

Constitutive Expression of Multiple Growth Factor Genes by Melanoma Cells but Not Normal Melanocytes

1991 • 176 citations

Angiogenesis and tumor progression of melanoma. Quantification of vascularity in melanocytic nevi and cutaneous malignant melanoma.

1992 • 173 citations

The growth of the blood supply to melanoma transplants in the hamster cheek pouch.

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Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor does not promote transformation but confers a growth advantage in vivo to Chinese hamster ovary cells.

1993 • 167 citations

Neovascularization in human cutaneous melanoma: A quantitative morphological and Doppler ultrasound study

1986 • 159 citations

Human Keratinocytes Express the Three Major Splice Forms of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

1995 • 127 citations

Tumor vascularity is not a prognostic factor for malignant melanoma of the skin.

1995 • 103 citations

Differential expression of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in melanocytic lesions demonstrated by in situ hybridization. Implications for tumor progression.

1994 • 102 citations

Vascular permeability factor expression influences tumor angiogenesis in human melanoma lines xenografted to nude mice.

1995 • 95 citations

Vascular structure of five human malignant melanomas grown in athymic nude mice

1982 • 93 citations

Regressing thin cutaneous malignant melanomas (< or = 1.0 mm) are associated with angiogenesis.

1993 • 92 citations

The vascularity of primary cutaneous melanoma

1991 • 78 citations

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1993 • 59 citations

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