“…Such binding might be essential for vascular endothelial cells to adhere to and migrate onto basement membrane, and later to generate vascular structure. With regard to endostatin (collagen XVIII), effected as an ECMderived angiogenesis inhibitor and extensively used in the researches of pulmonary cancer [24,25], the inhibition effect of rhEDI-8t on the proliferation of vascular endothelial cells may be realized via cell surface receptors/proteins. RhEDI-8t or endostatin suppresses subretinal NV in rho/VEGF transgenic mice Rho/VEGF mice were treated with 1 μl (1 μg/μl) rhEDI-8t 1 (b, whole retina, arrows, n=13, each retina is n=1; d, magnified views of part of b, arrows) or endostatin (h, whole retina, arrows, n=10; j, magnified views of part of h, arrows) as positive control in one eye and vehicle in the fellow eye (a, g, whole retina, arrows; c, i, magnified views of part of a and g, arrows) by intravitreous injection atP14, perfused with fluorescein-labeled dextran at P21.…”