Defective vascular morphogenesis and mid-gestation embryonic death in mice lacking RA-GEF-1

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 363, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-112

  Wei, Ping ^a   Satoh, Takaya ^a   Edamatsu, Hironori ^a   Aiba, Atsu ^a   Setsu, Tomiyoshi ^a   Terashima, Toshio ^a   Kitazawa, Sohei ^a   Nakao, Kazuki ^b   Yoshikawa, Yoko ^a   Tamada, Masako ^a   Kataoka, Tohru ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Embryonic lethality; Knockout mouse; RA GEF 1; Rap1; Vasculogenesis

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; RAP1 PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; GESTATION PERIOD; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GESTATIONAL AGE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

MUS;

EID: 34548794724     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.08.149     Document Type: Article

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