Leland Stanford Junior University

Murray H Kown

John P Cooke

Jonathan B Rothbard

Robert C Robbins

Shiro Uemura

Garrison C Fathman

Cardiovascular cell proliferation in a blood vessel subjected to trauma, such 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.

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Murray H Kown