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What is the difference between angiogenesis and vasculogenesis?

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Angiogenesis is the growth of new blood vessels from vessels that already exist, driven mainly by the endothelial cells that line them. It continues throughout life. Vasculogenesis is how the embryo first builds blood vessels from scratch, using precursor cells called angioblasts that develop from mesodermal stem cells. In short, vasculogenesis lays down the first network, and angiogenesis expands and remodels it.

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Both processes are described in the NCBI Bookshelf physiology text [2]. In adults, new vessel growth after injury, with exercise or in tumors is mainly angiogenesis.

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