VEGF-C receptor binding and pattern of expression with VEGFR-3 suggests a role in lymphatic vascular development

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3829-3837

  Kukk, Eola ^a   Lymboussakl, Athina ^a   Taira, Suvi ^a   Kaipainen, Arja ^a   Jeltsch, Michael ^a   Joukov, Vladimir ^a   Alitalo, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Endothelial cell; Lymphatic system; Mouse; Vascular system; VEGF C receptor; VEGRR 3

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART; KIDNEY; LUNG; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MESENCHYME CELL; MESENTERY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGANDS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-3;

EID: 0030453355     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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