Using a new and dramatically effective treatment approach, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have for the first time achieved complete inhibition of new blood vessel growth in animal models ...

Analyzing the expression of particular genes in lung cancers could soon allow researchers to identify groups of patients who are likely to benefit most from treatment with angiogenesis-inhibitor drugs ...

Formation of new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels is called angiogenesis and is purely a physiological process normal and vital in growth development, in wound healing and in granulation tissue ...

Meta-analysis of randomized control trials for the incidence and risk of treatment-related mortality in patients with cancer treated with vascular endothelial growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Tuberculosis bacteria escape the little pellets of immune system containment called granulomas with the help of new blood vessels that tunnel into the clusters to provide fresh oxygen and an escape ...

There are several extensive reviews recently published surveying a wide variety of targeted agents under development for the treatment of ovarian cancer. 3 - 8 The greatest success to date in the ...

Treatment with the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab improved hearing and alleviated other symptoms in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). In a paper to appear in the July 23 New England ...

Already only in Japan an estimated 1,000,000 patients suffer from peripheral arterial disease caused by lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes or atherosclerosis. About200,000 patients are at ...

As mentioned above, during acute stroke tissue may be salvaged by blood flow supplied from collateral vessels. By constrast, in the chronic phase after stroke the formation of functionally intact ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The body responds to tuberculosis infection by locking the bacterial offenders into tiny clusters of immune cells called granulomas, which are a hallmark of the disease. This ...