Segmental territories along the cardinal veins generate lymph sacs via a ballooning mechanism during embryonic lymphangiogenesis in mice

Developmental Biology

Volumn 364, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-98

  François, Mathias ^a   Short, Kieran ^b   Secker, Genevieve A ^c   Combes, Alexander ^a   Schwarz, Quenten ^c   Davidson, Tara Lynne ^a   Smyth, Ian ^b   Hong, Young Kwon ^d   Harvey, Natasha L ^c,e   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CENTRE FOR CANCER BIOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster; Live imaging; Lymphangiogenesis; Lymphatic endothelial cells; LYVE1; Optical projection tomography; Prox1; Spatial organization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDINAL VEIN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; ENDOMUCIN GENE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH SAC; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYVE 1 GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NRP2 GENE; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROX1 GENE; SOX18 GENE; STEM CELL; TOMOGRAPHY; VEIN;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84858070058     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.12.032     Document Type: Article

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