Vascular endothelial growth factor inhibits mitogen-induced vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation 1, 2 1Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Surgery, November 10, 2002, Boston, MA. 2This work was supported in part by a Merit Review Award from the Veterans’ Administration Research Service (MBA) and by funding from the Gonda Family Endowment. MBA received partial support from the Gonda Family Endowment.