The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 133, 275-288,
Copyright © 1971 by The Rockefeller University Press
ISOLATION OF A TUMOR FACTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANGIOGENESIS
Judah Folkman M.D.1,
Ezio Merler Ph.D.1,
Charles Abernathy M.D.1, and
Gretchen Williams 1
1 From the Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Human and animal solid tumors elaborate a factor which is mitogenic to capillary endothelial cells. This factor has been called tumor-angiogenesis factor. The important components of TAF are RNA and protein. It is suggested that blockade of this factor (inhibition of angiogenesis) might arrest solid tumors at a tiny diameter of a few millimeters.
Submitted on September 15, 1970