Efforts to control vessel growth have focused on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its primary receptor VEGFR-2. New data could shift that focus to other members of the VEGF family and the receptor VEGFR-1, particularly in inflammatory diseases (pages 831–840 & 841–849).
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Eriksson, U., Alitalo, K. VEGF receptor 1 stimulates stem-cell recruitment and new hope for angiogenesis therapies. Nat Med 8, 775–777 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0802-775
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