Successful strategy developed to regenerate blood vessels

Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have discovered a way to stimulate the formation of highly functional new blood vessels. Scientists have developed a strategy in which a biological factor, called fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9), is delivered at the same time that the body is making its own effort at forming new blood vessels in vulnerable or damaged tissue.

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