Advances in growth factor delivery for therapeutic angiogenesis

Journal of Vascular Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-51

  Said, Somiraa S ^a   Pickering, J Geoffrey ^a,b   Mequanint, Kibret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Growth factors; Neovascular maturation; Therapeutic angiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ANGIOPOIETIN 1; BECAPLERMIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 126; PLACEBO; PLACENTAL GROWTH FACTOR; PLASMID DNA; POLYMER; RECOMBINANT FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; RECOMBINANT PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; SCATTER FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN 121; VASCULOTROPIN 165; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN B; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VIRUS VECTOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANEMIA; ANGIOGENESIS; ANGIOGENIC GENE THERAPY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; ELECTROSPINNING; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; ANGIOGENIC PROTEINS; ANIMALS; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG CARRIERS; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; REGENERATION;

EID: 84868681499     PISSN: 10181172     EISSN: 14230135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345108     Document Type: Review

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