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SUBMITTER: Boosani CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3260939 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boosani Chandra Shekhar CS Sudhakar Yakkanti A YA
Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 20111201 12
Angiogenesis, a neovascularization process induced from the existing parent blood vessels, is a prerequisite for many physiological and pathological conditions. Under physiological conditions it is regulated by a balance between endogenous angioinhibitors and angioactivators, and an imbalance between them would lead to pathological conditions such as cancer, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, cardiovascular diseases, etc. Several proteolytically generated endogenous mo ...[more]