Reviews: 2011 Vol: 3 Issue: 2
A Historical Review on Current Medication and Therapies for Inducing and Inhibiting Angiogenesis
Abstract
Angiogenesis means the growth of new capillary blood vessels in the body is an important natural process used for
healing and reproduction. The body controls angiogenesis by producing a precise balance of growth and inhibitory
factors in healthy tissues. When this balance is disturbed, the result is either too much or too little angiogenesis.
Excessive angiogenesis occurs in diseases such as cancer, diabetic blindness, age-related macular degeneration,
rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and more than 70 other conditions for these Anti angiogenic therapies are aimed to
halt new blood vessel growth there by using angiogenesis inhibitors have been also discovered from natural sources to
treat cancer. Insufficient angiogenesis occurs in diseases such as coronary artery disease, stroke, and chronic wounds.
Therapeutic angiogenesis aimed to stimulate new blood vessel growth with growth factors is being developed to treat
these conditions. Angiogenic gene therapy is also being developed as a method to deliver angiogenic growth factors to
the heart, limbs, and wounds. Currently there is no angiogenic gene therapy and drugs approved by FDA for the
treatment of ischemic cardiovascular disease. But FDA approved device is used to stimulate NBV to grow in diseased
hearts is a laser used in a technique called Direct Myocardial Revascularization. The present review will helpful for
the discovery of potent angiogenesis growth factors and further research findings from various sources is to be
encouraged to alternate the recombinant protein, monoclonal antibody, device and cell based therapies