Mechanisms controlling human endothelial lumen formation and tube assembly in three-dimensional extracellular matrices

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 270-285

  Davis, George E ^a,c   Kon, Wonshill ^b   Stratman, Amber N ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial lumen formation; Extracellular matrix; Matrix metalloproteinases; Rho GTPases; Vascular morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 14; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 2; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 4; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 6; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELL VACUOLE; CENTROSOME; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; LUMEN FORMATION; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; MORPHOGENESIS; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL POLARITY; COLLAGEN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 14; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; P21-ACTIVATED KINASES; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VACUOLES;

EID: 38749125145     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20107     Document Type: Review

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