Study of apoptosis induced by cytostatics and vegetal extracts on human endothelial cell line.

Angiogenesis, the biological process by which new capillaries are formed from pre-existing vessels, is a tightly controlled and complex process involving several factors with both stimulating and inhibiting steps. In solid tumor growth, a specific clinical turning point is the transition to the vascular phase. Once it develops an intrinsic vascular network, a tumor grows indefinitely.