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SUBMITTER: Klement GL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2661866 | biostudies-other | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Klement Giannoula Lakka GL Yip Tai-Tung TT Cassiola Flavia F Kikuchi Lena L Cervi David D Podust Vladimir V Italiano Joseph E JE Wheatley Erin E Abou-Slaybi Abdo A Bender Elise E Almog Nava N Kieran Mark W MW Folkman Judah J
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Clinical trials with antiangiogenic agents have not been able to validate plasma or serum levels of angiogenesis regulators as reliable markers of cancer presence or therapeutic response. We recently reported that platelets contain numerous proteins that regulate angiogenesis. We now show that accumulation of angiogenesis regulators in platelets of animals bearing malignant tumors exceeds significantly their concentration in plasma or serum, as well as their levels in platelets from non-tumor-be ...[more]