Sinusoid development and morphogenesis may be stimulated by VEGF-Flk-1 signaling during fetal mouse liver development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 386-397

  Sugiyama, Yoshinori ^a   Takabe, Yurie ^a   Nakakura, Takashi ^a   Tanaka, Shigeyasu ^a   Koike, Toru ^a   Shiojiri, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Flk 1; Hepatoblasts; Liver morphogenesis; Sinusoid; VEGF

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL LINE; CENTRAL VEIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER SINUSOID; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; ORGANOGENESIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

MURINAE;

EID: 75149126896     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22162     Document Type: Article

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