Shahin Rafii

VEGFR1-positive haematopoietic bone marrow progenitors initiate the pre-metastatic niche

Rosandra N. Kaplan, Rebecca D. Riba, Stergios Zacharoulis et al. · Nature · 2005 · 3.2K citations · Full text

Pre-metastatic Niche, Stem Cell Mobilization, Biological Microenvironments +4

Expression of VEGFR-2 and AC133 by circulating human CD34+ cells identifies a population of functional endothelial precursors

Mario Peichev, Afzal J. Naiyer, Daniel Peixoto Pereira et al. · Blood · 2000 · 2.3K citations

Impaired recruitment of bone-marrow–derived endothelial and hematopoietic precursor cells blocks tumor angiogenesis and growth

David Lyden, Koichi Hattori, Sérgio Dias et al. · Nature Medicine · 2001 · 1.9K citations

Angiogenesis, Medicine, Stem Cell Mobilization +11

Recruitment of Stem and Progenitor Cells from the Bone Marrow Niche Requires MMP-9 Mediated Release of Kit-Ligand

Beate Heissig, Koichi Hattori, Sérgio Dias et al. · Cell · 2002 · 1.7K citations · Full text

Progenitor Cells, Regenerative Medicine, Developmental Biology +11

Evidence for Circulating Bone Marrow-Derived Endothelial Cells

Qun Shi, Shahin Rafii, Moses Hong-De Wu et al. · Blood · 1998 · 1.7K citations