Angiogenesis Key Principles Science Technology Medicine [Paperback]

Introductories.- Angiogenesis  Historical perspective.- Angiogenesis  Retrospect and outlook.- Angiogenesis  The interdisciplinary challenge.- Angiogenesis  Cytokines as part of a network.- Angiogenesis  Biomedical technology.- Angiogenesis  Time to review progress.- Angiogenesis  A new fascinating enigma for surgeons?!.- Morphology.- Intussusceptive microvascular growth, a new mechanism of capillary network formation.- Combined morphological approaches in the study of network formation in tumor angiogenesis.- Maturation of newly-formed subretinal vessels.- Embryonic development of the CNS microvasculature in the mouse: new insights into the structural mechanisms of early angiogenesis.- Vascular supply in embryonic neural transplants.- Microvascular network architecture in a mammary carcinoma.- Tumor angiogenesis: evidence of new blood vessel channels from plasma infiltrations.- Molecular Biology.- Receptors for platelet-derived growth factor on microvascular endothelial cells.- Five FGF receptors with distinct expression patterns.- Activation of the tyrosine kinase receptor is not sufficient for the full biological activity of bFGF.- Chemical Engineering.- Angiogenesis and heparin mimics.- Endothelial cell migration and chemotaxis in angiogenesis.- Cell Biology and Dynamics.- Microenvironment and angiogenic response.- Modulation of angiogenesis in vitro.- Proteolytic balance and capillary morphogenesis in vitro.- Metalloproteinase inhibition as a mechanism for the inhibition of angiogenesis.- TPA-induced differentiation of rat aortic endothelial cells is substrate-specific and receptor mediated.- Aortic endothelial cells in culture: factors which modulate their morphological and biosynthetic phenotypes.- The behaviour of pericytes in vitro: relevance to angiogenesis and differentiation.- Identification of non heparin-binding endothelial cell growth factor from rat myofibroblasts.- Differential expression of integrin cell-substratum adhesion receptors on endolƒz