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The effect of fibrin on angiogenesis in vitro was investigated using an experimental model of tube formation by bovine capillary endothelial cells (BCEs) in type I collagen gel. One milligram per milliliter of fibrin added into type I collagen gel significantly increased the length of the tubular structures formed by BCEs in the gel by about 180% compared with type I collagen only. The facilitating effect of fibrin on tube formation by BCEs was inhibited by either anti-basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) IgG (25 µg/ml) or anti-urokinase type plasminogen activator (uPA) IgG (10 µg/ml) added to the gel and culture medium, but not by anti-tissue type plasminogen activator (10 µg/ml) or non-immune IgG. The Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) containing peptides (100 µg/ml) added to the culture medium also suppressed tube formation by BCEs in fibrin-containing type I collagen gel, but not in type I collagen gel. These results suggest that the increased release of bFGF and uPA by BCEs therefore plays a role in the angiogenic effect of fibrin in vitro, and the angiogenic effect of fibrin is mediated by the RGD sequence in fibrin, probably via the function of integrin receptor of the BCEs.
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Takei, A., Tashiro, Y., Nakashima, Y. et al. Effects of fibrin on the angiogenesis in vitro of bovine endothelial cells in collagen gel. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 31, 467–472 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02634260
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