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VEGF-B
Introduction
Vascular endothelial growth factor B, also known as VEGFB, is a human gene.[1]
Further reading
Further reading
- Joukov V, Kaipainen A, Jeltsch M; et al. (1997). “Vascular endothelial growth factors VEGF-B and VEGF-C”. J. Cell. Physiol. 173 (2): 211–5. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4652(199711)173:2<211::AID-JCP23>3.0.CO;2-H. PMID 9365524.
- Olofsson B, Pajusola K, Kaipainen A; et al. (1996). “Vascular endothelial growth factor B, a novel growth factor for endothelial cells”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 (6): 2576–81. PMID 8637916.
- Olofsson B, Pajusola K, von Euler G; et al. (1996). “Genomic organization of the mouse and human genes for vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGF-B) and characterization of a second splice isoform”. J. Biol. Chem. 271 (32): 19310–7. PMID 8702615.
- Grimmond S, Lagercrantz J, Drinkwater C; et al. (1996). “Cloning and characterization of a novel human gene related to vascular endothelial growth factor”. Genome Res. 6 (2): 124–31. PMID 8919691.
- Olofsson B, Korpelainen E, Pepper MS; et al. (1998). “Vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGF-B) binds to VEGF receptor-1 and regulates plasminogen activator activity in endothelial cells”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 (20): 11709–14. PMID 9751730.
- Makinen T, Olofsson B, Karpanen T; et al. (1999). “Differential binding of vascular endothelial growth factor B splice and proteolytic isoforms to neuropilin-1”. J. Biol. Chem. 274 (30): 21217–22. PMID 10409677.
- Ikuta T, Ariga H, Matsumoto K (2001). “Extracellular matrix tenascin-X in combination with vascular endothelial growth factor B enhances endothelial cell proliferation”. Genes Cells. 5 (11): 913–927. PMID 11122379.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.
- Qi JH, Ebrahem Q, Moore N; et al. (2003). “A novel function for tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP3): inhibition of angiogenesis by blockage of VEGF binding to VEGF receptor-2”. Nat. Med. 9 (4): 407–15. doi:10.1038/nm846. PMID 12652295.
- Trompezinski S, Berthier-Vergnes O, Denis A; et al. (2004). “Comparative expression of vascular endothelial growth factor family members, VEGF-B, -C and -D, by normal human keratinocytes and fibroblasts”. Exp. Dermatol. 13 (2): 98–105. doi:10.1111/j.0906-6705.2004.00137.x. PMID 15009103.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). “The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.
- Timoshenko AV, Chakraborty C, Wagner GF, Lala PK (2006). “COX-2-mediated stimulation of the lymphangiogenic factor VEGF-C in human breast cancer”. Br. J. Cancer. 94 (8): 1154–63. doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603067. PMID 16570043.
- Iyer S, Scotney PD, Nash AD, Ravi Acharya K (2006). “Crystal structure of human vascular endothelial growth factor-B: identification of amino acids important for receptor binding”. J. Mol. Biol. 359 (1): 76–85. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2006.03.002. PMID 16616187.
- Yamada E, Yamazaki K, Takano K; et al. (2007). “Iodide inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor-A expression in cultured human thyroid follicles: a microarray search for effects of thyrotropin and iodide on angiogenesis factors”. Thyroid. 16 (6): 545–54. doi:10.1089/thy.2006.16.545. PMID 16839256.
- de Paulis A, Prevete N, Fiorentino I; et al. (2007). “Expression and functions of the vascular endothelial growth factors and their receptors in human basophils”. J. Immunol. 177 (10): 7322–31. PMID 17082651.