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Mast Cells in Tumor Angiogenesis and Lymphangiogenesis

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The ability of mast cells to store angiogenic growth factors and their cell-specific release of preformed factors into the surrounding tissue by piecemeal degranulation (Dvorak and Kissel 1991) indicate that their granules are a depot for endothelial survival factors.

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Ribatti, D. (2019). Mast Cells in Tumor Angiogenesis and Lymphangiogenesis. In: The Mast Cell . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24190-2_11

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