Therapeutic Angiogenesis for the Heart

摘要: Angiogenesis takes place in many different organ systems and circumstances. can be an essential part of a physiological process or it may contribute to pathological processes, as extensively described other chapters this book. In the developing heart, angiogenesis is — addition vasculogenesis, formation vascular structures out angioblasts important providing highly perfused with sufficient network order fulfill its high metabolic requirements. Not only but also adult growth, i.e. proliferation cells, observed well, demonstrated by pioneering work Schaper coworkers (1). contributes collaterals does arteriogenesis, i.e., arteries pre-existing arterioles (2).