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Impaired pericyte recruitment and abnormal retinal angiogenesis as a result of angiopoietin-2 overexpression
1 Jan 2007
Abstract excerpt
Angiopoietin-2 (Ang2) is among the relevant growth factors induced by hypoxia and plays an important role in the initiation of retinal neovascularizations. Ang2 is also involved in incipient diabetic retinopathy, as it may cause pericyte loss. To investigate the impact of Ang2 on developmental and hypoxia-induced angiogenesis, we used a transgenic mouse line overexpressing human Ang2 in the mouse retina....
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