VEGF is crucial for the hepatic vascular development required for lipoprotein uptake

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3293-3303

  Carpenter, Brian ^a,d   Lin, Yuankai ^a   Stoll, Stephanie ^a   Raffai, Robert L ^a,b   McCuskey, Robert ^c   Wang, Rong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Auvation Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Sinusoids; Space of Disse; Vascular development

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; CELL SPECIFICITY; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FENESTRATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LIVER CELL; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER SINUSOID; MICROVILLUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; DOWN-REGULATION; LIPOPROTEINS; LIVER; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORGANOGENESIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 23844555148     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01902     Document Type: Article

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