articleFrontiers in PharmacologyJan 4, 2024GOLD OA

Recent advances of anti-angiogenic inhibitors targeting VEGF/VEGFR axis

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University · The First People's Hospital of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGF), Vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFR) and their downstream signaling pathways are promising targets in anti-angiogenic therapy. They constitute a crucial system to regulate physiological and pathological angiogenesis. In the last 20 years, many anti-angiogenic drugs have been developed based on VEGF/VEGFR system to treat diverse cancers and retinopathies, and new drugs with improved properties continue to emerge at a fast rate. They consist of different molecular structures and characteristics, which enable them to inhibit the interaction of VEGF/VEGFR, to inhibit the activity of VEGFR tyrosine kinase (TK), or to inhibit VEGFR downstream signaling. In…

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