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The COOH-terminal globular domain of fibrinogen gamma chain suppresses angiogenesis and tumor growth.
Cancer research - 1 Oct 2006
Akakura Nobuaki, Hoogland Case, Takada Yoko K, Saegusa Jun, Ye Xiaojing, Liu Fu-Tong, Cheung Anthony Tze-Wai, Takada Yoshikazu
Abstract excerpt
Fibrinogen is a major plasma protein (350 kDa) that induces proliferative signals by serving as a scaffold to support the binding of growth factors and to promote the cellular responses of adhesion, proliferation, and migration during wound healing, angiogenesis, and tumor growth. Fibrin(ogen) degradation products generated during fibrinolysis are implicated in tissue injury. The fibrinogen gamma chain has a...
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