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...what proteins the broken genes should be making and replace them instead. Dr. Jeffrey Isner at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston has achieved remarkable results with a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF2) in restoring circulation in the legs of diabetics and, more impressively, stimulating new vessel growth in patients with severe heart disease. Says former Eli Lilly chairman Randall Tobias: "The day will come when we regard all surgeries, except [treatment of] trauma, as failures of the pharmaceutical industry...
Folkman has been working on restricting blood vessel growth, particularly near tumors, for over 30 years, according to Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Elias J. Corey...
...blood vessel] requirement for existing tissue is minimal," Corey said. "The requirement for rapidly-growing tissue is substantial...
...explained in an article in the Sept. 17 issue of the journal Science, the human body contains numerous proteins which limit blood vessel growth under normal conditions such as menstruation and wound healing...
...article in the journal Cell, researchers in Folkman's lab, including Folkman and angiostatin discoverer Michael S. O'Reilly, wrote that their findings and experimental data "suggest a theme of fragments of proteins as angiogenesis [blood vessel growth] inhibitors...