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New strategy to combat cancer: Streamlining blood vessel walls

Our blood vessels provide all growing tissues with oxygen and nutrients. The growth of blood vessels (a process termed angiogenesis) is indispensable for the proper functioning of organs and the repair of tissues when they ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2




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Cutting off the oxygen supply to serious diseases

A new family of proteins which regulate the human body's 'hypoxic response' to low levels of oxygen has been discovered by scientists at Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary, University of London and The University of Nottingham.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lower levels of key protein influence tumor growth in mice, study shows

Tumors need a healthy supply of blood to grow and spread. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecule that regulates blood vessel growth that is often found at less-than-normal levels ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Normalizing' tumor vessels leaves cancer more benign

A report publishing online on February 12th in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, suggests a counterintuitive new method to make cancer less likely to spread: by normalizing the shape of tumors' blood vessels to ...

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