Sentences with phrase «vessel overgrowth»
Together, the experiments confirmed that neurons and blood vessels in the intermediate layer communicate to keep blood vessels growing normally — striking a balance between providing enough blood and avoiding blood vessel overgrowth.
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In July Genentech announced that the drug Lucentis stabilized or even improved vision in a yearlong clinical trial of patients with so - called wet macular degeneration, a form that involves overgrowth of blood vessels.
In addition, Zeitels notes, the treatment's mechanism of eradicating the blood vessels supplying a tumor — highly effective for conventional vocal - cord cancer — is even more useful for treating tumors caused by HPV infection, which are characterized by an excessive overgrowth of blood vessels.
We can then ask whether blood vessels overgrow in the absence of this regulatory pathway; whether overgrowth causes fluid loss from the vessels that in turn causes eye cells to die; and how the eye might try to recover even without any other intervention.