Basic fibroblast growth factor induces a transformed phenotype in normal human melanocytes

Human basic fibroblast growth factor gene encodes four polypeptides: three initiate translation from non-AUG codons.

Robert Z. Florkiewicz, Andreas Sommer · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1989 · 533 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +7

Translocation of bFGF to the nucleus is G1 phase cell cycle specific in bovine aortic endothelial cells.

Véronique Baldin, A.M. Roman, Isabelle Bosc-Bierne et al. · The EMBO Journal · 1990 · 327 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +13

Antisense targeting of basic fibroblast growth factor and dibroblast growth factor receptor-1 in human melanomas blocks intratumoral angiogenesis and tumor growth

Yiping Wang, Dorothea Becker · Nature Medicine · 1997 · 285 citations

Medicine, Cancer Biology, Oncology +17

Proliferation of human malignant melanomas is inhibited by antisense oligodeoxynucleotides targeted against basic fibroblast growth factor.

Dorothea Becker, Carola Meier, Meenhard Herlyn · The EMBO Journal · 1989 · 267 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cancer Biology, Oncology +13

A secreted FGF-binding protein can serve as the angiogenic switch in human cancer

Frank Czubayko, Emmanuelle Liaudet‐Coopman, Achim Aigner et al. · Nature Medicine · 1997 · 241 citations

Medicine, Molecular Biology, Oncology +14