title: Development of vasculature targeting strategies for the treatment of cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases.
abstract: Endothelial cells play a pathological role in cancer and chronic inflammation and are therefore attractive targets for therapeutic intervention. This review focuses on endothelial cell specific drug targeting strategies for the treatment of these diseases. The cellular and molecular processes involved in the activation of endothelial cells in angiogenesis and inflammation will be reviewed. Various target epitopes expressed by activated endothelium suitable for targeting purposes, design and development of drug-carrier complexes, drugs of interest which might interfere with endothelial cell activation, as well as in vitro and in vivo experimental approaches to study (intra) cellular drug delivery will be discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Biology Section, Tumor Immunology Laboratory, Groningen University Institute for Drug Exploration (GUIDE), Groningen, The Netherlands. a.j.schraa@med.rug.nl
authors.forename: Astrid J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Schraa
authors.forename: Maaike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Everts
authors.forename: Robbert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kok
authors.forename: Sigridur A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Asgeirsdóttir
authors.forename: Dirk K F
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Meijer
authors.forename: Lou F M H
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: de Leij
authors.forename: Grietje
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Molema
mesh_terms: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004337:Drug Carriers; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000379:methods*; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D004337:Drug Carriers