Barr and co-workers [27] showed that NRP-1 plays an essential role in autocrine antiapoptotic signaling by VPF/VEGF in tumor cells and that an NRP-1-blockade with an anti-NRP-1 peptide corresponding to exon 7 [28] of VEGF165 induces tumor cell and EC apoptosis. This evidence concerns the gene NRP1 and neoplasm.