Vascular development and patterning: Making the right choices

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 408-412

  Rossant, Janet ^a,b   Hirashima, Masanori ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN; EPHRIN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROX 1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PROX 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR EPITHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR EPITHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR D; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D;

ANIMAL; ARTERY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD VESSEL; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; ORTHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; VENOUS CIRCULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0041344596     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(03)00080-7     Document Type: Review

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