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Nature 407, 242-248 (14 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35025215

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progress Vascular-specific growth factors and blood vessel formation

George D. Yancopoulos1, Samuel Davis1, Nicholas W. Gale1, John S. Rudge1, Stanley J. Wiegand1 & Jocelyn Holash1

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A recent explosion in newly discovered vascular growth factors has coincided with exploitation of powerful new genetic approaches for studying vascular development. An emerging rule is that all of these factors must be used in perfect harmony to form functional vessels. These new findings also demand re-evaluation of therapeutic efforts aimed at regulating blood vessel growth in ischaemia, cancer and other pathological settings.