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Cyr61/CCN1 and CTGF/CCN2 mediate the proangiogenic activity of VHL-mutant renal carcinoma cells.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Apr 2008
Chintalapudi Mastan R, Markiewicz Margaret, Kose Nurgun, Dammai Vincent, Champion Kristen J, Hoda Rana S, Trojanowska Maria, Hsu Tien
Abstract excerpt
The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) protein serves as a negative regulator of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-alpha subunits. Since HIF regulates critical angiogenic factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and lesions in VHL gene are present in a majority of the highly vascularized renal cell carcinoma (RCC), it is believed that deregulation of the VHL-HIF pathway is crucial for the proangiogenic...
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