"Colin J. Barnstable and co-workers have undertaken the task to present an up-to-date collection including presentations on clinical and mechanistic data as well as current therapeutic applications. The 412-page hardback book includes numerous black-and-white pictures as well as several illustrations. ... The book ... will surely find a place not only for the use of basic scientists but could be of interest for the clinician trying to understand the background on angiogenesis research." (Antonia Joussen, Graefes Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Issue 246, 2008)
I. Angiogenic Diseases
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Curtis L. Hagedorn and Ron A. Adelman
Endogenous Angiogenic Inhibitors in Diabetic Retinopathy
Jian-Xing Ma and Sarah X. Zhang
Corneal Angiogenesis
Trevor R. Carmichael
Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy
Nahoko Ogata and Kanji Takahashi
Myopic Choroidal Neovascularization
Kyoko Ohno-Matsui and Takashi Tokoro
Mechanisms of the Formation and Stability of Retinal Blood Vessels
Jonathan Stone, Trent Sandercoe, and Jan Provis
Neovascular Glaucoma
James C. Tsai and M. Bruce Shields
Eales' Disease
Jyotirmay Biswas
Angiogenesis and Ocular Tumorigenesis
Nader Sheibani and Daniel M. Albert
Genetics of Ocular Vascular Disease
Jacquie Greenberg, Ari Ziskind, and Stephen P. Daiger
II. Endogenous Promoters and Inhibitors of Angiogenesis
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Retinal Diseases
Sam Dahr and Karl G. Csaky
The Role of Fibroblast Growth Factors in Ocular Angiogenesis
Andreas Bikfalvi and Sophie Javerzat
Control of Neovascularization and Cell Survival in the Eye by PEDF
Joyce Tombran-Tink and Colin J. Barnstable
Thrombospondin: Guarding the Clear View
Arin Aurora and Olga V. Volpert
Regulation of Ocular Angiogenesis by Matrix Proteases and Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases
Bela Anand-Apte
Integrins in Ocular Angiogenesis
Matthew R. Ritter and Martin Friedlander
Ocular Inflammation and Neovascularization
Chi-Chao Chan and Robert B. Nussenblatt
III. Therapeutics and Delivery for Angiogenic Eye Diseases
Anti-VEGF Therapies for Diseases of the Retina and Choroid
Ming Lu and Donald J. D'Amico
Anecortave Acetate: A Novel Ocular Angiostatic Agent
Stella M. Robertson, Alberta A. Davis, David C. Dahlin, and Abbot F. Clark
Gene Therapy for Neovascular Retinopathies
Brian J. Raisler, Kenneth I. Berns, and William W. Hauswirth
Noninvasive Delivery of DNA Into the Eye
John M. Nickerson, R. Keith Shuler, Jr., John B. Davies, Phyllis K. Dioguardi, Steven M. Wolchok, Vincent T. Ciavatta, Jeffrey H. Boatright, and Henry F. Edelhauser
Novel Drug Delivery Systems for Posterior Segment Ocular Disease
Heather Sheardown and W. Mark Saltzman
Index
The recent intense study of pathogenic ocular angiogenesis-an abnormal growth of blood vessels in the eye responsible for the major blinding diseases throughout the world-has yielded an overwhelming flood of scientific findings, novel insights, and possible future therapeutic approaches. In Ocular Angiogenesis: Diseases, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics, leading academic and pharmaceutical researchers and clinicians from many disciplines synthesize and summarize these developments to present a comprehensive review of what is known about angiogenesis, its role in blinding diseases, and the mechanisms leading to progressive vessel dysfunction. The authors also identify and assess the most promising approaches with potential for commercial exploitation and discuss the challenges encountered in developing therapeutics for ocular neovascular diseases. Highlights include illuminating chapters on gene therapy and novel drug delivery systems and excellent summaries of the newest therapeutic approaches. Comprehensive and multidisciplinary, Ocular Angiogenesis: Diseases, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics offers a novel view of the clinical features of pathological angiogenesis in the eye, the molecular and environmental switches that govern vessel growth, and the tremendous opportunities for and progress made in the development of new therapeutics.