Vascular endothelial growth factor

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a hypoxia-inducibleangiogenesis and vascular permeability factor which is expressedin high amounts in perinecrotic palisading cells inhuman glioblastomas. In vitro VEGF gene expression isenhanced approximately ten times by hypoxia. Current evidencesuggests, that hypoxia is also the driving forcefor VEGF gene expression in glioblastoma cells invivo and represents the most important trigger fortumor angiogenesis and edema. Our approaches to inhibittumor angiogenesis and edema formation in glioblastoma patientswill concentrate on the disruption of VEGF/VEGF receptorsignal transduction pathway in vivo.