VEGF-A induces tumor and sentinel lymph node lymphangiogenesis and promotes lymphatic metastasis.

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Published in J Exp Med on April 04, 2005

Authors

Satoshi Hirakawa1, Shohta Kodama, Rainer Kunstfeld, Kentaro Kajiya, Lawrence F Brown, Michael Detmar

Author Affiliations

1: Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.

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