Summary
Chemokines were originally described as cytokines that mediate leukocyte recruitment
to sites of inflammation. Members of a subgroup of chemokines, the CXC family, also
play a critical role in both physiologic and pathologic angiogenesis, including in
the context of chronic inflammation, fibrosis, and malignancy.A unique feature of
this family of cytokines is that, on the basis of their structure and receptor binding,
individual ligands display either angiogenic or angiostatic biological activity in
the regulation of angiogenesis. In this review, we summarize the key literature in
this growing field.
Keywords
Chemokine - chemokine receptor - angiogenesis - cancer