VESGEN 2D: Automated, user-interactive software for quantification and mapping of angiogenic and lymphangiogenic trees and networks

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-332

  Vickerman, Mary B ^a   Keith, Patricia A ^a   McKay, Terri L ^a   Gedeon, Dan J ^a   Watanabe, Michiko ^b   Montano, Monica ^b   Karunamuni, Ganga ^b   Kaiser, Peter K ^c   Sears, Jonathan E ^c   Ebrahem, Quteba ^c   Ribita, Daniela ^c   Hylton, Alan G ^a   Parsons Wingerter, Patricia ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Avian; CAM; Chorioallantoic membrane; Coronary vascular development; Fractal; Lymphangiogenesis; Neovascularization; NPDR; Quail; Retina; Triamcinolone acetonide; Vascular complexity; VEGF; VESGEN

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSTATIN; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VASCULOTROPIN 165;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CHORIOALLANTOIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORONARY ARTERY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GROWTH REGULATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA EDEMA; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR TISSUE;

ANIMALS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MICE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; QUAIL; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; SOFTWARE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

AVES; MURINAE; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 65549115173     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20862     Document Type: Article

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