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Nature Medicine  3, 1083 - 1084 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm1097-1083

bFGF and tumor angiogenesis — Back in the limelight?

Janusz Rak & Robert S. Kerbel

Cancer Research Program, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada

An FGF-binding protein secreted by tumor cells suggests how bFGF may stimulate tumor angiogenesis (pages 1137−1140).

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