Angiogenesis, Vol. 298 Book

	Introductory Comments	1
	Microvascular Endothelial Cells from Adrenal Medulla - A Model for in Vitro Angiogenesis	7
	Angiogenesis in the Heart and skeletal Muscle - Models for Capillary Growth	19
	Basement Membrane Biosynthesis as a Biochemical Index of Angiogenesis in Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane	35
	The Rat and Rabbit Cornea Assays	39
	The Rat aorta Model of Angiogenesis: Methodology and Applications	47
	Assessment of Angiogenesis by MRI	55
	Measuring Intratumoral Microvessel Density	61
	Patterns of Physiological Angiogeneis in Adult Mesentery	75
	Angiogenesis - Critical Assessement of in Vitro Assays and in Vivo Models	85
	The Several Roles of Oxygen in Wound Healing	93
	Autocrine Role of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (B-FGF) in Angiogenesis and Angioproliferative Diseases	99
	Inflammatory Angiogenic Factors in a Model of Chronic Inflammation	113
	Angiogenic Mediators in Wound Healing	121
	Modulation of VEGF Angiogenic Activity by ADP-Ribosylation	129
	Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 and Endothelial Cell Stimulating Angiogenic Factor (ESAF) in Capillary Growth in skeletal Muscles Exposed to Long-Term High Activity	135
	Angiogenesis in Atherosclerosis: Possible Roles for ESAF, VEGF, VWF and Soluble E-Selectin	149
	Thymosin Beta 4 Promotes Endothelial Cell Migration and Angiogenesis	157
	Structural Studies on Angiogenin, a Protein Implicated in Neovascularisation during Tumour Growth	165
	Lesional Levels of ESAF and VEGF Are Elevated in Psoriasis	179
	Structure and Functional Role of Endothelial Cell-to Cell Junctions	187
	The Interaction of Human Neutrophils with Type IV Collagen Involves an Inhibitory Signal Transduction Pathway	203
	Angiogenic Polypeptides in Breast Cancer. Expression of mRNAs in Primary Human Tumours, MCF-7 Cell Transfection and Xenograft Models	213
	The Role of Thrombin and Its Receptors in Angiogenesis: Physiological and Pathological Implications	225
	Fibrin Degradative Pathways and Angiogenesis in Healing, Atherosclerosis and Tumor Invasion	233
	Proteases and Angiogenesis: Regulation of Plasminogen Activators and Matrix Metalloproteases by Endothelial Cells	241
	Cellular and Molecular Effects of Thrombin in the Vascular System	263
	Endogenous Regulation of Angiogenesis in Vitro	285
	Nitric Oxide and Angiogenesis	297
	Nitric Oxide: A Promoter or Suppressor of Angiogenesis	307
	Hypoxia/Reoxygenation Enhances Tube Formation of Cultured Human Micro-Vascular Endothelial Cells: The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species	321
	Tumor Angiogenesis and Metastasis: The Regulatory Role of Hyaluronan and Its Degradation Produces	337
	Cytokines and Growth Factors. Early Gene Expression during Angiogenic Stimuli	349
	The Role of Laminin Peptide SIKVAV in the Revascularization of Ischemic Tissue	355
	Oxidized Lipoproteins Enhance the in Vitro Tube Formation by Endothelial Cells Cultured on Matrigel	367
	A Peptide from the NC1 Domain of the Alpha-3 Chain of Type IV Collagen Prevents Damage to Basement Membranes by PMN	377
	Tumor Vascularity: What Does It Tell Us about the Growth and Spread of Cancer?	389
	Tumor Vascularity, Hypoxia and Malignant Progression in Solid Neoplasms	407
	Scatter Factor as a Mediator of Tumor Angiogenesis: Recent Clinical and Experimental Studies	415
	The Vascularization of Experimental and Human Primary Tumors: Comparative Morphometric and Morphologic Studies	429
	The Evolution of an Anti-Tumor Agent from a Neonatal Pathogen: Preclinical and Clinical Evidence for Targeting Tumor Neovasculature	449
	Mapping Neovascularization and Antineovascularization Theory Using MRI	459
	Clinical Trials of Angiogenesis-Based Therapies: Overview and New Guiding Principles	475
	Abstracts of Posters	495
	Participants' Photo	558
	List of Participants	560
	Index	569