Spatially restricted patterning cues provided by heparin-binding VEGF-A control blood vessel branching morphogenesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2684-2698

  Ruhrberg, Christiana ^a   Gerhardt, Holger ^b   Golding, Matthew ^a   Watson, Rose ^a   Ioannidou, Sofia ^a   Fujisawa, Hajime ^c   Betsholtz, Christer ^b   Shima, David T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood vesselangiogenesis; Branching morphogenesis; Embryo; VEGF

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FILOPODIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPARIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PSEUDOPODIA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037108152     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.242002     Document Type: Article

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