Tissue engineering is a new discipline which combines biology and material science to construct tissue or organs in vitro or in vivo. In the study of promoting angiogenesis
growth factors and adhesion peptides
these two kinds of material have a wide range of applications. Growth factors includes vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and angiopoietin 1 (Ang-1)
angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2)
platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) ; adhesion peptide mainly includes Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD)
Ary-Glu-Asp-Val (REDV) and Tyr-Ile-Gly-Ser-Arg (YIGSR). This paper summarizes the research progress of these two kinds of materials in tissue engineering.