“…et al, 2011) or coronary artery endothelial cells (Fujiyama et al, 2001;Hu et al, 2007), and none of them evaluated the effect of AngII or AngII and ARBs in hCMECs, which are phenotypically different from other endothelial cells (Feletou, 2011). In addition, the majority of the studies focused on the involvement of VEGF (Buharalioglu et al, 2011), angiopoietins (Herr et al, 2008), and EGFR transactivation (Fujiyama et al, 2001) in the angiogenic response to AngII. This ignores the possible role of other angiogenic mediators, such as BDNF, which has been shown to induce VEGF expression (Caporali and Emanueli, 2009) and produce an angiogenic response comparable to that of VEGF in endothelial cells (Li et al, 2006).…”