When we injected this compound into the eye we saw no signs of toxicity by a number of different measures, and that gave us the confidence to test it in an animal model of choroidal neovascularization (CNV), which is the even more technical term for the angiogenesis, the abnormal blood vessel growth that occurs in wet AMD. (brightfocus.org)
You can often see tiny blood vessels coursing across the cornea called neovascularization. (glenerinanimalhospital.com)
«Current treatments to control retinal neovascularization require injecting very large proteins, including antibodies, into the eyes of patients, as often as once a month. (aao.org)