Pattern formation during vasculogenesis

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-162

  Czirok, Andras ^a,b   Little, Charles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Modeling; Vasculogenesis

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRONECTIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ANGIOGENESIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BLOOD FLOW; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL SURFACE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURFACE TENSION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BODY PATTERNING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 84862259021     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.21010     Document Type: Review

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