Tissue deformation spatially modulates VEGF signaling and angiogenesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6886-6891

  Rivron, Nicolas C ^a   Vrij, Erik J ^a   Rouwkema, Jeroen ^a   Gac, Severine Le ^b   Van Berg, Albert Den ^b   Truckenmüller, Roman K ^a,b   Van Blitterswijk, Clemens A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Mechanical forces; Morphogenesis; Vascular patterning

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGENASE 3; F ACTIN; GELATINASE B; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; LAMININ; LAMININ ALPHA1; LAMININ BETA5; MYOSIN IIA; MYOSIN IIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN 121; VASCULOTROPIN 145; VASCULOTROPIN 165; VASCULOTROPIN 189; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEYDIG CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DEFORMATION; TISSUE INJURY; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ACTINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMECHANICS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA PRIMERS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MYOSINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 84860794165     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201626109     Document Type: Article

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