METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING CARDIOVASCULAR CELL PROLIFERATION

摘要

Cardiovascular cell proliferation in a blood vessel subjected to trauma, suc h as angioplasty, vascular graft, anastomosis, or organ transplant, can be inhibited by contacting the vessel with a polymer consisting of from 6 to about 30 amino acid subunits, where at least 50 % of the subunits are arginine, and the polymer contains at least six contiguous arginine subunits . Exemplary polymers for this purpose include arginine homopolymers 7 to 15 subunits in length.