| Literature DB >> 14745444 |
Christopher G Willett1, Yves Boucher, Emmanuelle di Tomaso, Dan G Duda, Lance L Munn, Ricky T Tong, Daniel C Chung, Dushyant V Sahani, Sanjeeva P Kalva, Sergey V Kozin, Mari Mino, Kenneth S Cohen, David T Scadden, Alan C Hartford, Alan J Fischman, Jeffrey W Clark, David P Ryan, Andrew X Zhu, Lawrence S Blaszkowsky, Helen X Chen, Paul C Shellito, Gregory Y Lauwers, Rakesh K Jain.
Abstract
The effects of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) blockade on the vascular biology of human tumors are not known. Here we show here that a single infusion of the VEGF-specific antibody bevacizumab decreases tumor perfusion, vascular volume, microvascular density, interstitial fluid pressure and the number of viable, circulating endothelial and progenitor cells, and increases the fraction of vessels with pericyte coverage in rectal carcinoma patients. These data indicate that VEGF blockade has a direct and rapid antivascular effect in human tumors.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 14745444 PMCID： PMC2693485 DOI： 10.1038/nm988
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Med ISSN： 1078-8956 Impact factor: 53.440