[Methods in Enzymology] Angiogenesis - In Vitro Systems Volume 443 || Chapter 5 In Vitro Three Dimensional Collagen Matrix Models of Endothelial Lumen Formation During Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis

✍ Scribed by Koh, Wonshill

• Book ID: 119965324
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 684 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 012374315X
• ISSN: 0076-6879
• DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)02005-3

✦ Synopsis

Angiogenesis is the growth of new blood vessels and is an important natural process in the body. A healthy body maintains a perfect balance of angiogenesis modulators. In many serious disease states, however, the body loses control over antiogenesis. Diseases that are angiogensis-dependent result when blood vessels either grow excessively or insufficiently.

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