Clinical Vascular Growth Factor Therapy for Neovascularization in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease -- The Strengths and Weaknesses of VEGF Adenovirus-Driven Angiogenesis -- Angiogenesis and Arteriogenesis in Diabetes Mellitus: Signal Transduction Defects as the Molecular Basis of Vascular Cell Dysfunction -- Endothelial Activation and Neointimal Hyperplasia: A Double-Edged Sword -- Pampering and Priming the Heart -- Coronary Venous Retroinfusion: A Novel Venue of Regional Induction of Neovascularization -- Integrative Pro-angiogenic Activation: HIF-? -- The Maturation of Vessels – A Limitation to Forced Neovascularization? -- Vascular and Neuronal Development: Intersecting Parallelisms and rossroads -- Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptides Modulate Angiogenesis -- The Biology of Embryonic and Adult Endothelial Progenitor Cells -- Signaling Behind Progenitor Cell Mobilization: Focus on Enos and Caveolin -- The Role of Monocytes/Macrophages and Vascular Resident Precursor Cells in Collateral Growth.