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A precursor form of vascular endothelial growth factor arises by initiation from an upstream in-frame CUG codon.
The Biochemical journal - 1 Oct 2001
Tee M K, Jaffe R B
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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a mitogen in physiological and pathological angiogenesis. Understanding the expression of different VEGF isoforms might be important for distinguishing angiogenesis in tissue development, vascular remodelling and tumour formation. We examined its expression and noted the presence of the isoforms VEGF(121) and VEGF(165) (121 and 165 residues long respectively) in fetal...
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