angiogenesis
New capillary growth
Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels from existing ones.
The process occurs naturally during wound healing, embryonic development, and the menstrual cycle.
In medicine, angiogenesis often appears in discussions of cancer, where tumors stimulate blood vessel growth to feed themselves: The drug works by inhibiting angiogenesis.
Of vessel-lining cells
- vascularizationFormation of blood vessels
- capillarySmallest blood vessel
- sproutingSeeds beginning growth
- hypoxiaInsufficient tissue oxygenation
signaling · receptors · proliferation · migration · notch · lumen · morphogenesis
endothelial
Of vessel-lining cells
- vascularizationFormation of blood vessels
- capillarySmallest blood vessel
- sproutingSeeds beginning growth
hypoxia · signaling · receptors · proliferation · migration · notch · lumen · morphogenesis
angiogenesisnecrosis
Localized cell death
atrophy · apoptosis · hypoxia · infarction
genesis, angiography, angioplasty, neurogenesis, pathogenesis, blood vessel, carcinogenesis, angiogram, hemangioma