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- Dong‐bao Chen
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology University of California Irvine California USA
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- Jing Zheng
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology University of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin USA
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2014-01
- 権利情報
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- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
- DOI
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- 10.1111/micc.12093
- 公開者
- Wiley
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説明
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Ample interest has been evoked in using placental angiogenesis as a target for the development of diagnosis tools and potential therapeutics for pregnancy complications based on the knowledge of placental angiogenesis in normal and aberrant pregnancies. Although these goals are still far from reach, one would expect that two complementary processes should be balanced for therapeutic angiogenesis to be successful in restoring a mature and functional vascular network in the placenta in any pregnancy complication: (i) pro‐angiogenic stimulation of new vessel growth and (ii) anti‐angiogenic inhibition of vessel overgrowth. As the best model of physiological angiogenesis, investigations of placental angiogenesis provide critical insights not only for better understanding of normal placental endothelial biology but also for the development of diagnosis tools for pregnancy complications. Such investigations will potentially identify novel pro‐angiogenic factors for therapeutic intervention for tissue damage in various obstetric complications or heart failure or anti‐angiogenic factors to target on cancer or vision loss in which circulation needs to be constrained. This review summarizes the genetic and molecular aspects of normal placental angiogenesis as well as the signaling mechanisms by which the dominant angiogenic factor vascular endothelial growth factor regulates placental angiogenesis with a focus on placental endothelial cells.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Microcirculation
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Microcirculation 21 (1), 15-25, 2014-01
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