ea0037ep494 | Diabetes (complications & therapy) | ECE2015
El Sattar El-Deeb Abd
, Halawa Mohamed
, Saad Ahmed
, Sabry Inas
, Mahdy Maram
, Abd El Aziz Mohamed
, Roshdy Nagwa
Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a clinically well-defined sight-threatening complication in type 2 diabetes. Angiopoietin 1 (Ang1) has been shown to promote endothelial cell survival without causing proliferation, stabilise endothelial interactions with surrounding support cells and can block the vascular permeability effects of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). More recent data suggest that balance between these growth factors may affect vascular endothelial...