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Nature Chemical Biology 2, 228 - 229 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0506-228

Fishing and frogging for anti-angiogenic drugs

Frederik De Smet1, Peter Carmeliet1 & Monica Autiero1

  1. Frederik De Smet, Peter Carmeliet and Monica Autiero are in the Center for Transgene Technology and Gene Therapy, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, University of Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. e-mail: peter.carmeliet@med.kuleuven.be


There is a growing medical need for additional anti-angiogenic drugs. A new model of regenerative angiogenesis in the fin of adult zebrafish promises to accelerate discovery of genes and drugs related to angiogenesis.

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