Literature list for Poster #XX:

Novel activating proteases uncover new roles for VEGF-C

Sawan Kumar Jha1*, Khushbu Rauniyar1*, Ewa Chronowska3, Hannu Koistinen4, Ulf-Håkan Stenman4, Michael Jeltsch1,2,**

1Translational Cancer Biology Research Program; 2Wihuri Research Institute, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Finland; 3Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland; 4Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland; *equal contribution; **corrresponding author (http://lab.jeltsch.org - michael@jeltsch.org)

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6. Rauniyar K, Jha SK, Jeltsch M. Biology of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor C in the Morphogenesis of Lymphatic Vessels. Frontiers in Bioengineering and  Biotechnology. 2018; 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00007

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