Hedgehog signaling is essential for endothelial tube formation during vasculogenesis

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4371-4380

  Vokes, Steven A ^a,b   Yatskievych, Tatiana A ^a   Heimark, Ronald L ^a   McMahon, Jill ^b   McMahon, Andrew P ^b   Antin, Parker B ^a   Krieg, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chick; Endoderm; Mouse; Tubulogenesis; Vasculogenesis; VEGF

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA PRIMERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDODERM; ENDOTHELIUM; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ERINACEIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 4644226671     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01304     Document Type: Article

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