ABSTRACT
Angiogenesis is a process that new blood vessels generate on the basis of an original vascular plexus via sprouting or other forms during normal growth and development of an organism or under particular conditions such as wound repairing and ischemic hypoxia. In general, angiogenesis includes five stages: degradation of the vascular basement membrane, endothelial cell proliferation, vascular sprouting, lumen formation and vascular network turning stable and mature. Among ischemic heart diseases, acute myocardial infarction seriously threatens human health, its pathological characteristics include myocardial vascular stenosis and blockage,leading to myocardial infarction. Therefore,the promotion of angiogenesis has become one of the therapies for ischemic heart diseases. A variety of pro-angiogenic cytokines are involved in the process of angiogenesis, such as polypeptide growth factors and lipid mediators. In this paper we review the recent progress in research on the expression of pro-angiogenic factors in myocardium after ischemic myocardial infarction.