ANGIOGENESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angiogenesis mean? 

• ANGIOGENESIS (noun)
  The noun ANGIOGENESIS has 1 sense:

1. the formation of new blood vessels

  Familiarity information: ANGIOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGIOGENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The formation of new blood vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("angiogenesis" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

 Context examples 

A monoclonal antibody that inhibits binding of vascular endothelial growth factor to its receptor, thereby inhibiting angiogenesis and tumor growth.

(Monoclonal Antibody DC101, NCI Thesaurus)

Mogamulizumab selectively binds to and blocks the activity of CCR4, which may inhibit CCR4-mediated signal transduction pathways and, so, chemokine-mediated cellular migration and proliferation of T cells, and chemokine-mediated angiogenesis.

(Mogamulizumab, NCI Thesaurus)

AMG 706 selectively targets and inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGFR), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGFR), Kit, and Ret receptors, thereby inhibiting angiogenesis and cellular proliferation.

(Motesanib, NCI Thesaurus)

Motesanib selectively targets and inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGFR), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGFR), kit, and Ret receptors, thereby inhibiting angiogenesis and cellular proliferation.

(Motesanib Diphosphate, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent also causes decreased expression of genes involved in tumor hypoxia and angiogenesis.

(MTF-1 Inhibitor LOR-253 HCl, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in angiogenesis, inflammation and the regulation of extracellular matrix remodeling.

(MMP2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

MMI270 inhibits a broad spectrum of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) (specifically MMP-1, 2, 3, 9, and 13), thereby inducing extracellular matrix degradation, and inhibiting angiogenesis, tumor growth and invasion, and metastasis.

(MMI270, NCI Thesaurus)

In cancer treatment, angiogenesis inhibitors may prevent the growth of new blood vessels that tumors need to grow.

(Angiogenesis inhibitor, NCI Dictionary)

In cancer therapy, angiogenesis inhibitors preferentially target the new blood vessels that tumors require for oxygen and nutrition, thereby inhibiting the growth and spread of these tumors.

(Angiogenesis inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

MET is overexpressed or mutated in many tumor cell types, and plays key roles in tumor cell proliferation, survival, invasion, and metastasis, and tumor angiogenesis.

(MET Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor EMD 1204831, NCI Thesaurus)