Differences of Angiogenesis Factors in Tumor and Diabetes Mellitus

Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes. 2021 Jul 24:14:3375-3388. doi: 10.2147/DMSO.S315362. eCollection 2021.

Abstract

Angiogenesis, as a process occurring under the regulation of a variety of factors, is one of the important ways of vascular development. It coexists in a variety of pathological and physiological processes. Now a large number of studies have proved that tumor growth, metastasis, and various vascular complications of diabetes are closely related to angiogenesis, and an increasing number of studies have shown that there are many common factors between the two. But angiogenesis is the opposite of the two: it is enhanced in tumors and suppressed in diabetes. Therefore, this review discusses the causes of the phenomenon from the expression of various factors affecting angiogenesis in these two diseases and their effects on angiogenesis in the relevant microenvironment, as well as the application status of these factors or cells as therapeutic targets in the treatment of these two diseases.

Keywords: angiogenesis; diabetes mellitus; differences; hypoxia; tumor; tumor microenvironment.

Publication types

  • Review

Grants and funding

This work was supported as follows: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82070455, 81770450); the Related Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20201225, WSN-044, LGY2018092, QNRC2016836)