VEGF-VEGFR Signals in Health and Disease
Biomolecules & Therapeutics
;
: 1-9, 2014.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-138523
ABSTRACT
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-VEGF receptor (VEGFR) system has been shown to play central roles not only in physiological angiogenesis, but also in pathological angiogenesis in diseases such as cancer. Based on these findings, a variety of anti-angiogenic drugs, including anti-VEGF antibodies and VEGFR/multi-receptor kinase inhibitors have been developed and approved for the clinical use. While the clinical efficacy of these drugs has been clearly demonstrated in cancer patients, they have not been shown to be effective in curing cancer, suggesting that further improvement in their design is necessary. Abnormal expression of an endogenous VEGF-inhibitor sFlt-1 has been shown to be involved in a variety of diseases, such as preeclampsia and aged macular degeneration. In addition, various factors modulating angiogenic processes have been recently isolated. Given this complexity then, extensive studies on the interrelationship between VEGF signals and other angiogenesis-regulatory systems will be important for developing future strategies to suppress diseases with an angiogenic component.
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Main subject:
Phosphotransferases
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Pre-Eclampsia
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Neovascularization, Physiologic
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Angiogenesis Inhibitors
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Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
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Macular Degeneration
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Antibodies
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Neovascularization, Pathologic
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Biomolecules & Therapeutics
Year:
2014
Type:
Article
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