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Inflammatory cells regulate endothelial cell functions related to physiological angiogenesis as well as inflammatory and tumour-associated angiogenesis. It was Rudolf Virchow in 1863, who critically recognized the presence of inflammatory cells infiltrating neoplastic tissues and first established a causative connection between the “lymphoreticular infiltrate” at sites of chronic inflammation and cancer.
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Ribatti, D., Crivellato, E. (2011). Mast Cells and Tumour Angiogenesis. In: Mast Cells and Tumours. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1469-4_7
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