Definition of angiostatin in US English:
angiostatin
nounˌanjēōˈstatnˌanjēōˈstatn
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.
- 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.