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Nature Medicine 11, 925 - 927 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nm0905-925

Masters of angiogenesis

Robert M Strieter1

  1. The author is in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1786, USA. e-mail: rstrieter@mednet.ucla.edu


Fresh approaches are needed for antiangiogenesis therapies that target blood vessel growth in tumors. Knocking down multiple regulators of angiogenesis might provide a way forward (pages 992–997).


The concept of treating tumors by cutting off angiogenesis, the process of new blood vessel growth, is powerful. But in practice, results of clinical trials of angiogenesis inhibitors—such as bevacizumab, the monoclonal antibody to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) have not been overwhelming1, 2.

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