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• Heterogeneity of blood vessels: Physiological versus pathologicalangiogenesis  
  Moritz A. Konerding, Dino J Ravnic and Tanja Wolloscheck

    1

• The role of endothelial progenitor cells in tumor angiogenesis  
  Mathias Lamparter and Antonis K. Hatzopoulos

    17

• Vascular endothelial growth factors - molecular diversity and function  
  Heather S. Bevan, Steven J. Harper and David O. Bates

    31

• Impact of fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF2) on tumor growth and vascularization: Establishing a “FGF2-dependent” tumor model  
  Presta M., Coltrini D., Giavazzi R. and Rusnati M.

    55

• The angiopoietins: Linking angiogenesis and inflammation  
  Stelios Tsigkos and Andreas Papapetropoulos

    79

• Nerve growth factor - a neurotrophin with angiogenic activity  
  Shimon Lecht, Ilaria Puxeddu, Francesca Levi-Schaffer, Reuven Reich, Ben Davidson, Erik Schaefer, Cezary Marcinkiewicz, Peter I. Lelkes and Philip Lazarovici

    95

• Proteases and angiogenesis  
  Robert E Verloop and Victor W.M. van Hinsbergh

    111

• Role of integrins in angiogenesis  
  Guido Serini and Federico Bussolino

    133

• Regulation of angiogenesis by the extracellular matrix  
  Nicholas A. Kefalides and Charles C. Clark

    149

• Platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor/ThymidinePhosphorylase in cancer progression and treatment  
  Sandra Liekens

    163

• New insights into the role of thrombin in vascular formation  
  Nikos E. Tsopanoglou and Michael E. Maragoudakis

    183

• Nitric oxide and angiogenesis  
  L. Morbidelli, S. Donnini and M. Ziche

    193

• Reactive oxygen species as mediators of angiogenesis signaling  
  Christos Polytarchou, Maria Hatziapostolou, Evangelia Poimenidi and Evangelia Papadimitriou

    207

• Role of inflammatory cells in angiogenesis  
  Enrico Crivellato and Domenico Ribatti

    229

• Role of pericytes in angiogenesis  
  Roberto F. Nicosia and Alfred C. Aplin

    247

• Platelets and angiogenesis in malignancy  
  Ewa Sierko and Marek Z. Wojtukiewicz

    263

• Significance of protein N-glycosylation in breast tumor angiogenesis  
  Dipak K. Banerjee, Juan A. Martinez and Krishna Baksi

    281

• Opioids as promoters and regulators of angiogenesis  
  Mihir Gupta, Yunfang Li and Kalpna Gupta

    303

• Endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis  
  Yasufumi Sato

    319

• Dietary products and angiogenesis  
  Sara Stigliani, Silvia Caviglia, Ilaria Sogno and Adriana Albini

    333

• Ginseng and angiogenesis  
  Patrick YK Yue, Y-K Cheng, NK Mak, KW Leung, Alice ST Wong, Tai-Ping Fan and Ricky NS Wong

    351

• Lymphangiogenic factors and their roles in metastasis  
  Yihai Cao

    367

• Angiogenesis-based medicine: Principles and practice for disease prevention and intervention  
  William W. Li, Michelle Hutnik and Vincent W. Li

    377

• Combined targeting the EGF(R) and VEGF(R) pathways as anti-cancer therapy  
  Klaas Hoekman

    419

• Anti-angiogenic therapy in oncology  
  Anna Koumarianou and Sofia Agelaki

    425

• Sunitinib malate for the treatment of solid tumours  
  Sakina Hoosen and Subramanian Hariharan

    435

• Role of angiogenesis and inflammation in prostate cancer development: Targets for therapy and prevention  
  Laura Paleari, Nicola Vannini, Girieca Lorusso, Sara Stigliani, Paolo Puppo, Douglas M. Noonan and Adriana Albini

    455

• Anti-VEGF therapy for ocular vascular diseases  
  Stanley A. Vinores

    467

• Angiostatic therapy in endometriosis  
  Patrick G. Groothuis, Annemiek W. Nap, Jacques W. Maasand Gerard A. J. Dunselman

    483

• Therapeutic angiogenesis for ischemic diseases The story of an ongoing scientific innovative adventure"There are no guarantees, only great opportunities"  
  Chohreh Partovian and Michael Simons

    497

• Angiogenesis and inflammatory diseases: Current concepts and therapeutic perspectives  
  Raquel Soares and Carla Costa

    511

• Inhibition of angiogenesis by antiinflammatory drugs  
  Masakazu Toi, Ryuichi Yoshida, Md. Zahidunnabi Dewan, Shoji Yamaoka and Naoki Yamamoto

    549

• Induction of angiogenesis in tissue engineering: 3D-guidelines for endothelial cells  
  Heike Hall

    561

• Angiogenesis imaging  
  Michael Emmanuel Maragoudakis

    579