[Thus, there is a great need to understand how patients become resistant to effective therapies for these cancers since this approach may lead to improvements in therapies that target EGF-R and VEGF/VEGF-R. Pre-clinical studies have begun to shed light on the mechanisms of resistance to anti-angiogenetic drugs and to date four mechanisms of resistance have been identified (1) upregulation of bFGF, (2) overexpression of MMP-9, (3) increased levels of SDF-1alpha and (4) HIF-1alpha-induced recruitment of bone marrow-derived CD45+ myeloid cells.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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