Screening and engineering extracellular matrix environments for the control of blood vessel formation KU Leuven
Tissues and organs must form new blood vessels in order to develop, grow and repair after injury. Unfortunately, cancerous tumours adopt similar mechanisms of vessel formation. As a result, understanding and controlling blood vessel growth from existing blood vessels (termed angiogenesis) is of critical importance in medicine. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is composed of many different molecules, including proteins, glycoproteins, ...