Reversible transdifferentiation of blood vascular endothelial cells to a lymphatic-like phenotype in vitro

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 123, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 3808-3816

  Cooley, Lindsay S ^a   Handsley, Madeleine M ^a   Zhou, Zhigang ^a   Lafleur, Marc A ^b,d   Pennington, Caroline J ^a   Thompson, Erik W ^b,c   Pöschl, Ernst ^a   Edwards, Dylan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Blood vascular; Endothelial cell; Lymphatic; LYVE 1; Pericyte; Prox 1

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRIN; METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UMBILICAL VEIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRIN; HUMANS; LAMININ; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELLS; MICROTUBULES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOGLYCANS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 78149312718     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.064279     Document Type: Article

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