Mechanisms of Angiogenesis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Clauss, Matthias (Editor), Breier, Georg (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
• Series: Experientia Supplementum
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Angiology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.

Is it advisable to go back from bedside to the bench? During the last decade, few topics encountered such a broad interest in bio- gy and medicine as angiogenesis. The amazing ability of the body to restore blood flow by induction of blood vessel growth as part of an adaptive process has alarmed phy...

Table of Contents:

• Basic principles in physiological and pathophysiological angiogenesis
• How do endothelial cells orientate?
• New insights into intussusceptive angiogenesis
• Angiogenesis in the female reproductive system
• Arterialization, coronariogenesis and arteriogenesis
• Sprouting angiogenesis versus co-option in tumor angiogenesis
• Hormones and the neovascularization process: role of angiotensin II
• Can tumor angiogenesis be inhibited without resistance?
• Cellular and physical mechanisms of blood vessel growth
• Role of pericytes in vascular morphogenesis
• Role of monocytes and macrophages in angiogenesis
• Bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells for neovascular formation
• Can angiogenesis be exercised?
• Angiogenesis — a self-adapting principle in hypoxia
• Cellular mechanisms of arteriogenesis
• Balancing luminal size and smooth muscle proliferation — a key control point in atherosclerosis and arteriogenesis
• Molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis
• The role of VEGF in the regulation of physiological and pathological angiogenesis
• The anti-inflammatory actions of angiopoietin-1
• The hemostatic system in angiogenesis
• Signal transduction in angiogenesis.