Review Article

A Critical Analysis of the Available In Vitro and Ex Vivo Methods to Study Retinal Angiogenesis

Table 1

Information subtracted from the articles. All the included articles were screened according to these points.

Year of publication
Purpose of the study
In vitro studies?
 Which cells were used?
 Cocultures or independent cultures?
 Which angiogenesis assays were performed?
 How many trials?
 How were they performed?
 Resource to kits?
 Was the assay effective?
 Limitations of the assay
Ex vivo studies?
 Organ used
 How were they implemented?
 Was the assay effective?
 Limitations of the assay