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UNDERSTANDING ANGIOGENESIS

Angiogenic Growth Factors & Inhibitors
Known Angiogenic Growth Factors

Angiogenin
Angiopoietin-1
Del-1
Fibroblast growth factors: acidic (aFGF) and basic (bFGF)
Follistatin
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) /scatter factor (SF)
Interleukin-8 (IL-8)
Leptin
Midkine
Placental growth factor
Platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (PD-ECGF)
Platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB)
Pleiotrophin (PTN)
Progranulin
Proliferin
Transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha)
Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta)
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)/vascular permeability factor (VPF)
 
Known Angiogenesis Inhibitors

Angioarrestin
Angiostatin (plasminogen fragment)
Antiangiogenic antithrombin III
Cartilage-derived inhibitor (CDI)
CD59 complement fragment
Endostatin (collagen XVIII fragment)
Fibronectin fragment
Gro-beta
Heparinases
Heparin hexasaccharide fragment
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)
Interferon alpha/beta/gamma
Interferon inducible protein (IP-10)
Interleukin-12
Kringle 5 (plasminogen fragment)
Metalloproteinase inhibitors (TIMPs)
2-Methoxyestradiol
Placental ribonuclease inhibitor
Plasminogen activator inhibitor
Platelet factor-4 (PF4)
Prolactin 16kD fragment
Proliferin-related protein (PRP)
Retinoids
Tetrahydrocortisol-S
Thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1)
Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-b)
Vasculostatin
Vasostatin (calreticulin fragment)

 

Last updated June 23, 2009

References:
Folkman J. Antiangiogenesis Agents, in Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 6th ed. DeVita VT, Hellman S, Rosenberg SA, eds. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 2001, pp.509-519.

Folkman J, Klagsbrun M. Angiogenic factors. Science 1987;235:442-447.

Kerbel RS, Molecular Origins of Cancer, Tumor Angiogenesis. N Engl J Med 2008;358:2039-2049.

 

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