The forming limb skeleton serves as a signaling center for limb vasculature patterning via regulation of Vegf

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1263-1272

  Eshkar Oren, Idit ^a   Viukov, Sergey V ^a   Salameh, Sharbel ^a   Krief, Sharon ^a   Oh, Chun Do ^b   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^c   Gerber, Hans Peter ^d   Ferrara, Napoleone ^d   Zelzer, Elazar ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti angiogenic; Limb development; Mouse; PRX1 Cre; Skeletogenesis; Skeleton; SOX9; SOX9 Cre; Vascular patterning; VEGF

Indexed keywords

NEUROPILIN 1; NEUROPILIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; SOX9 PROTEIN, MOUSE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; BONE; GENETICS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE AND BONES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIMB BUDS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 67650733297     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.034199     Document Type: Article

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