... organs,including the brain, is regulated by the VEGF system in combination with other signaling systems such as the angiopoietin–Tie, ephrin–Eph, Delta–Notch sys-tems, and the Wnt pathway.Furthermore, ... astrocytes, and the tight junctions of vascular endothelial cells (ECs) in the BBB are well organized with claudins and ZO-proteins through a decrease in angiogenesis signaling and an increase in the ... angio-genesis in both embryogenesis and adulthood, and functions by binding with two tyrosine kinase recep-tors, VEGFR-1 (Flt-1) and VEGFR-2 (KDR ⁄ Flk-1),Fig. 1. The VEGF–VEGFR system and the inhibitors...