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Meade-Tollin, Linda C.; Wijeratne, EM Kithsiri; Cooper, Deborah; Guild, Mischa; Jon, Edlyn; Fritz, Anne; Zhou, Guang-Xiong; Whitesell, Luke; Liang, Jing-yu; Gunatilaka, AA Leslie (2004). "Ponicidin and oridonin are responsible for the antiangiogenic activity of rabdosia r ubescens, a constituent of
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to develop "a more physiologically relevant and highly reproducible rapid model angiogenesis assay", which researchers then used to screen desert plants and fungi for ingredients that could be used in cancer treatment drugs. Meade-Tollin worked with Leslie
Gunatilaka & Luke Whitesell on this
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Noorden, Cornelis JF; Meade-Tollin, Linda C.; Bosman, Fred T. (1998). "Metastasis: the spread of cancer cells to distant sites implies a complex series of cellular abnormalities caused, in part, by genetic aberrations".
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and finishing her degree in 1972. Meade-Tollin may have been first Black woman to graduate from CUNY with a Ph.D. in
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Meade-Tollin, Linda C.; Way, Dennis; Witte, Marlys H. (1999). "Expression of multiple matrix metalloproteinases and urokinase type plasminogen activator in cultured Kaposi sarcoma cells".
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Meade-Tollin, Linda C.; Van
Noorden, Cornelis JF (2000). "Time lapse phase contrast video microscopy of directed migration of human microvascular endothelial cells on matrigel".
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University of Arizona, Meade-Tollin was a caregiver for her aging parents. As of 2012, Meade-Tollin, who had divorced her husband, lived in Tucson.
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