Molecular mechanisms controlling vascular lumen formation in three-dimensional extracellular matrices

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 122-143

  Sacharidou, Anastasia ^a   Stratman, Amber N ^a   Davis, George E ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Cdc42; Endothelial lumen formation; JamB; JamC; Lumen signaling complexes; MT1 MMP; Par3; Par6b; Pericytes; Rac1; Tubulogenesis; Vascular basement membrane matrix assembly; Vascular guidance tunnels

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COLLAGEN BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; JAMB PROTEIN; JAMC PROTEIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 14; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN PAR3; PROTEIN PAR6B; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LATE ACTIVATION ANTIGEN 2;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROTUBULE; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 84155166961     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331410     Document Type: Article

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