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We therefore investigated the effects of the strong angiogenesis inhibitor sunitinib on angiogenesis and invasion and whether MMP imaging could also depict the effects of the therapy on tumor angiogenesis and invasion. To this end, tumor-bearing mice were treated for 1 week with sunitinib after 1 week of tumor growth, and the MMP activity was compared with 2-week-old highly angiogenic and Q-VD-Oph molecular weight invasive untreated controls. Sunitinib treatment resulted in a significantly lower microvessel density and angiogenic activity compared with untreated controls (Figure?4, A and B, representative immunostainings are shown in Figure?4C; P Angiogenesis inhibitor sunitinib-treated mice compared with the untreated controls ( Figure?5A; P Thymidine kinase ( Figure?7C), whereas invasion was blocked by sunitinib treatment, and the border of the encapsulated tumors was well demarcated and partially collagen IV positive ( Figure?7D). These data demonstrate that OCT allows the morphologic characterization of the tumor behavior at a high resolution ( Figure?7). To analyze whether MMP activity is also a biomarker of invasiveness in clinical SCCs, we analyzed the MMP activity in invasive cervical SCC biopsies and adjacent normal cervical tissue by in situ zymography.