Endoglin is dispensable for angiogenesis, but required for endocardial cushion formation in the midgestation mouse embryo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-77

  Nomura Kitabayashi, Aya ^a   Anderson, Gregory A ^a,b   Sleep, Gillian ^a   Mena, Jenny ^a   Karabegovic, Amna ^a   Karamath, Sharon ^a   Letarte, Michelle ^b,c   Puri, Mira C ^a,b  

^a Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Atrioventricular canal; Endocardial to mesenchymal transition; Endoglin; Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

Indexed keywords

ENDOGLIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION; GENE FUNCTION; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MESENCHYME CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

MUS;

EID: 70349783755     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

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