hypovascularization

English

Etymology

hypo- +‎ vascularization

Noun

hypovascularization (usually uncountable, plural hypovascularizations)

1. deficient vascularization
   • 2016 February 6, “The Unfolded Protein Response Plays a Predominant Homeostatic Role in Response to Mitochondrial Stress in Pancreatic Stellate Cells”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     We can speculate that in conditions of hypovascularization, metabolically stressed PaSC would decrease the production of ECM proteins but they would retain their capacity to support angiogenic processes that alleviate hypoxia and poor substrate availability and fuel tumor progression.