METHODS FOR REGULATING ANGIOGENESIS

In accordance with the present invention, EP progenitors can be used in a method for regulating angiogenesis, i.e., enhancing or inhibiting blood vessel formation, in a selected patient and in some preferred embodiments for targeting specific locations. For example, the EC progenitors can be used to...

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Main Authors ASAHARA, TAKAYUKI, ISNER, JEFFREY, M
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 30.01.2008
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Summary:In accordance with the present invention, EP progenitors can be used in a method for regulating angiogenesis, i.e., enhancing or inhibiting blood vessel formation, in a selected patient and in some preferred embodiments for targeting specific locations. For example, the EC progenitors can be used to enhance angiogenesis or to deliver an angiogenesis modulator, e.g. anti- or pro-angiogenic agents, respectively to sites of pathologic or utilitarian angiogenesis. Additionally, in another embodiment, EC progenitors can be used to induce reendothelialization of an injured blood vessel, and thus reduce restenosis by indirectly inhibiting smooth muscle cell proliferation.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP19970947319