An anti-Vasohibin-2 antibody, a genetically recombinant anti-Vasohibin-2 antibody, or a fragment thereof, which recognizes amino acid numbers 269 to 288 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. The anti-Vasohibin-2 antibody of the present invention recognizes a Vasohibin-2 protein with an excellent specificity, and can inhibits an action of promoting angiogenesis owned by the Vasohibin-2 protein, so that the pharmaceutical composition containing the anti-Vasohibin-2 antibody is suitably used in the treatment of a disease requiring inhibition of angiogenesis such as cancer, and the like.

The invention relates to a use of an aurantiamide dipepetide derivative in the treatment or prevention of angiogenesis-related diseases. Accordingly, aurantiamide dipeptide derivatives can be used as angiogenesis inhibitor, whereby preventing or treating invasive and metastatic cancer and ocular neovascularization (particularly macular degeneration such as pathological neovascularization of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)).

The present invention relates to a composition for detecting hydrogen sulfide or measuring a concentration of hydrogen sulfide, and a composition comprising same as an effective ingredient for diagnosing or imaging in vivo inflammation, tissues having hypoxic damage, or cancer. The composition for detecting hydrogen sulfide or measuring a concentration of hydrogen sulfide according to the present invention, which comprises the compound represented by formula 1 (.sup.99mTc-alpha-hydroxy acid) having alpha-hydroxy acid labeled with .sup.99mTc, enables the detection or concentration measurement of hydrogen sulfide in in-vitro and in-vivo levels and, as such, can be advantageously used for detecting hydrogen sulfide and measuring a concentration of hydrogen sulfide and furthermore for discovering biological roles of hydrogen sulfide in vivo, especially, for detecting, imaging, and quantitatively measuring hydrogen sulfide in a disease selected from the group consisting of angiogenesis, inflammation, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular ischemia, and cerebrovascular ischemia, or in hypoxic tissues.

A method for predicting long-term efficacy of a VEGF inhibitor of the present invention includes determining whether or not an RAS gene-derived nucleic acid or an RAS protein is present in a blood sample collected from a subject, determines whether the RAS gene-derived nucleic acid in the blood sample is a wild type or a mutant or whether the RAS protein in the blood sample is a wild type or a mutant, determining that an antitumor effect resulting from the VEGF inhibitor is highly likely to last for a long period of time in the subject in a case where a wild-type RAS gene-derived nucleic acid or a wild-type RAS protein is detected in the blood sample and a mutant RAS gene-derived nucleic acid or a mutant RAS protein is not detected in the blood sample.

The present specification relates to a system for measuring the metastatic potential of cancer cells and a method for measuring the metastatic potential of cancer cells by using same, the system comprising a microenvironment mimicking part and a measurement unit, in which the microenvironment mimicking part comprises: a primary tumor layer including cancer cells and vascular endothelial cells; and a metastasis layer including a gel. The system according to an aspect of the present invention has excellent effects such as being able to co-culture cancer cells and vascular endothelial cells, mimic the metastasis of cancer cells that is caused by a vascular layer formed by vascular endothelial cells during co-culture, easily observe and measure the metastatic potential of cancer cells by using a marker that is expressed specifically in cancer cells, and mimic the metastasis of cancer cells and measure the metastatic potential thereof.

Pathogenic blood vessels are blood vessels that are not involved in the vascularization of normal organs but are in the pathogenic tissues such as the new blood vessels that drive vision diseases or the blood vessels in tumors that tumors depend on to survive. The current disclosure provides an advancement over typical anti-angiogenic strategies that target the generation of new blood vessels by providing compositions and methods that can selectively target and kill existing pathogenic blood vessels. The conventional antiangiogenic drugs or factors inhibit angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels), but cannot effectively kill existing pathogenic blood vessels. Agents, including small molecule compounds and antibodies, have been identified that bind to and activate PLXDC1 and PLXDC2 proteins, leading to effective killing of the endothelial cells in pathogenic blood vessels in vision diseases and in tumors that express these proteins. The disclosure thereby provides a novel modality for eliminating or reducing existing pathogenic blood vessels, thereby treating diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), retinopathy of prematurity, and cancer.

The present invention relates to a peptide binding to both a VEGF receptor and a PDGF receptor, a use thereof, and a selection method therefor.

The present disclosure provides animal models of wound healing and diseases associated with angiogenesis, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), fibrosis and cancer. The present disclosure further provides methods for identifying agents for promoting wound healing, modulating angiogenesis or treating diseases associated with angiogenesis, such as AMD and cancer.

The present invention relates to an antibody, which specifically binds to tyrosine-protein kinase receptor TIE-2 (TIE2) so as to possess functions of blood vessel normalization and stabilization through receptor phosphorylation, and relates to: an anti-TIE2 antibody; a nucleic acid encoding same; a vector comprising the nucleic acid; a cell transformed with the vector; a method for preparing the antibody; an agent for stabilizing blood vessels and a composition for treating angiogenesis-associated diseases, both of which comprise the antibody; and a composition for co-administration with a pharmaceutical composition for tumor or cancer treatment and with a composition other than an antibody binding to TIE2.