VEGF enhances pulmonary vasculogenesis and disrupts lung morphogenesis in vivo

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-227

  Zeng, Xin ^a   Wert, Susan E ^a   Federici, Robert ^b   Peters, Kevin G ^b   Whitsett, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolarization; Lung development; Transgenic mice; Vasculogenesis

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPHOKINES; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; PROTEOLIPIDS; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TIE-1; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TIE; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; UTEROGLOBIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031954357     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199803)211:3<215::AID-AJA3>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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