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Vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial growth factor (VPF/VEGF) is a cytokine secreted by many animal and human tumors, activated macrophages, keratinocytes, rheumatoid synovial cells, embryonic tissues, and by cultured epithelial and mesenchymal cell lines. It acts selectively on vascular endothelial cells to increase their permeability to circulating macromolecules and to stimulate their replication. Although not detectably expressed by vascular cells in the human and animal tumors we have studied, VPF/VEGF accumulates in the microvessels supplying tumors and certain inflammatory reactions in which VPF/VEGF is also overexpressed. Light microscopic immunohistochemistry lacked the resolution necessary to localize VPF/VEGF precisely in such vessels. Therefore, we used a pre-embedding immunocytochemical method to localize VPF/VEGF at the ultrastructural level in the new blood vessels that are elicited in the peritoneal walls of mice bearing a transplantable mouse ascites tumor of ovarian origin. Intense immunostaining for VPF/VEGF was observed on the abluminal plasma membrane of tumor-associated microvascular endothelial cells and in vesiculovacuolar organelles (VVOs) present in these same endothelial cells. (VVOs are recently described cytoplasmic organelles present in tumor vascular endothelium that provide an important pathway for extravasation of circulating macromolecules.) In contrast to labeling of the abluminal plasma membrane and VVO vesicles and vacuoles, endothelial cytoplasmic organelles, such as multivesicular bodies and Weibel-Palade bodies, and the underlying basal lamina, did not stain with antibodies to VPF/VEGF. The distribution of VPF/VEGF here described corresponds to that anticipated for high-affinity VFP/VEGF receptors, although binding of VPF/VEGF to other endothelial cell surface structures, such as plasma membrane proteoglycans, is also a possibility.

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Ultrastructural localization of vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial growth factor (VPF/VEGF) to the abluminal plasma membrane and vesiculovacuolar organelles of tumor microvascular endothelium.