Abstract
Cancer is a disease promoted by excess angiogenesis. Interference with this process poses an attractive approach to controling aberrant tumor growth, a hypothesis first proposed in the early 1970s that led to world-wide focus on identifying and developing angiogenesis inhibitors, which currently number in the hundreds. This review surveys the discovery and development of anti-angiogenic protein fragments and peptides, with a slant towards understanding their structure-function relationships to aid in the design of better therapeutic agents.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 83-91 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Angiogenesis |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2003 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by grants from the Dutch Cancer Society (to A.W. Griffioen), the Department of Defense DA/DAMD 17-99-1-9564 (to K.H. Mayo) and the National Institutes of Health R01 CA-96090 (to K.H. Mayo).
Keywords
- Angiogenesis inhibition
- Angiostatic peptides
- Angiostatic proteins
- Designer peptides and review