Sentences with phrase «called vascular endothelial growth factor»

One class of drugs, called vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors, for example, is designed to thwart the growth of abnormal blood vessels in the eye.

The drug, marketed as Lucentis, targets a molecule called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key player in the growth of blood vessels.

Other research has shown that oxygen - deprived cells in the retina produce a type of protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which triggers the growth of new blood vessels in the retina.

Kandel and colleagues at the Pediatric Tumor Biology Laboratory were the first to describe how experimental pediatric tumor growth could be suppressed by blocking a molecule called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) from performing its natural job.

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A critical discovery in this research was finding that the novel progenitor has a receptor protein on its cell surface called KDR, or vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2, which until now, was thought to be restricted to endothelial cells that form vessels, the progenitors for endothelial cells and the progenitors blood cells.

It is an inhibitor of a vascular endothelial growth factor, a cytokine called VEGF.

Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, also called VEGFR, is a biomarker found in certain patients with lung cancer.

One major internal contributor to cancer is called «vascular endothelial growth factor,» or VEGF.

Exercise training leads to the formation of new capillaries in a process called angiogenesis, mediated through the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling pathway (Gavin, 2009).