Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor: Basic Science and Clinical Progress

Endocrine Reviews - Tập 25 Số 4 - Trang 581-611 - 2004
Napoleone Ferrara1
1Department of Molecular Oncology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080

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