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Abstract

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for stimulating angiogenesis and/or the treatment or prevention of hypovascularity and/or the prevention and/or treatment of an angiogenic disorder/disease, whereby the composition comprises specific compounds which may be obtained from Leontopodium alpinum Cass, (Edelweiss). These compounds relate to lignan compounds as shown in herein disclosed formula I. A preferred compound in this context is leologin—IUPAC name [(2S,3R,4R)-4-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl)-2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)tetxahydrofuran-3-yl]methyl (2Z)-2-methylbut-2-enoat], and even more particularly 5-methoxy-leoligin (IUPAC name: [(25,3R,4R)-4-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl)-2-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)tetrahydrofuran-3-yl]methyl-(2Z)-2-methylbut-2-enoat) and derivatives thereof. Corresponding means and methods in respect of medical uses of these compounds are described. The compounds provided herein may particularly be useful in the treatment of wound healing, in particular traumatic wounds (like, but not limited to surface and skin wounds), non-diabetic retinopathy, vascular obliteration. The compounds derived from Leontopodium alpinum Cass. (Edelweiss) as described herein are also useful in the re-vascularization of tissue after amputation as well during or after transplantation of tissues or organs. These compounds are also useful in the medical intervention of arterio- and veno-microvasculopathy of blood vessels, in particular retinal microvasculopathy, arterio- and veno-microangiopathy that preferably cannot be treated by surgery, in ischemic diseases or ischemic disorders or in the treatment or prevention of necrosis/necrotic events, in particular of ischemic diseases or necrosis/necrotic events that cannot be treated by surgery. These compounds may also be used in the treatment or prevention of stable angina abdominalis, vascular dementia, impotence or penile dysfunction and the like and they may be employed in the reactivation of necrotisising tissue or in the reactivation of hibernating tissue.

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