A drug used to inhibit the growth of new blood vessels in malignant tumors.
Example sentencesExamples
Unfortunately all tumors, no matter what their size, secrete angiostatin, which promotes tumor growth - particularly the growth of new blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to the tumor.
Two decades later his lab discovered two compounds, endostatin and angiostatin, that shrank tumors in mice.
So Entremed is finally giving up on its celebrated peptide drug candidates, angiostatin and endostatin.
So the radiation, in combination with angiostatin, enhanced the drug's ability to block the growth of new tumor-supplying blood vessels.
Endostatin and angiostatin are natural inhibitors of angiogenesis that have been shown to inhibit the growth of a number of human malignancies.
Definition of angiostatin in US English:
angiostatin
nounˌanjēōˈstatn
Medicine
A drug used to inhibit the growth of new blood vessels in malignant tumors.
Example sentencesExamples
Unfortunately all tumors, no matter what their size, secrete angiostatin, which promotes tumor growth - particularly the growth of new blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to the tumor.
So Entremed is finally giving up on its celebrated peptide drug candidates, angiostatin and endostatin.
So the radiation, in combination with angiostatin, enhanced the drug's ability to block the growth of new tumor-supplying blood vessels.
Two decades later his lab discovered two compounds, endostatin and angiostatin, that shrank tumors in mice.
Endostatin and angiostatin are natural inhibitors of angiogenesis that have been shown to inhibit the growth of a number of human malignancies.