Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is involved in endothelial dysfunction in hypertension and diabetes. It may play a role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy. Other various growth factors were found to be involved in the neovascularization in proliferative diabetic retinopathy including insulin like growth factor -1 (IGF-1) but most of the studies have measured only a single growth factor especially in the vitreous fluid, thus ignori...