Shark Cartilage Contains Inhibitors of Tumor Angiogenesis
- 16 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 221 (4616) , 1185-1187
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6193581
Abstract
Shark cartilage contains a substance that strongly inhibits the growth of new blood vessels toward solid tumors, thereby restricting tumor growth. The abundance of this factor in shark cartilage, in contrast to cartilage from mammalian sources, may make sharks an ideal source of the inhibitor and may help to explain the rarity of neoplasms in these animals.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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