'In parallel' interconnectivity of the dorsal longitudinal anastomotic vessels requires both VEGF signaling and circulatory flow

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 125, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 5159-5167

  Zygmunt, Tomasz ^a   Trzaska, Sean ^a   Edelstein, Laura ^a   Walls, Johnathon ^c   Rajamani, Saathyaki ^c   Gale, Nicholas ^c   Daroles, Laura ^b   Ramírez, Craig ^a   Ulrich, Florian ^a   Torres Vázquez, Jesús ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Circulatory flow; Endothelium; Vascular development; VEGF; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL LONGITUDINAL ANASTOMOTIC VESSEL; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; TORSO; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84872229987     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.108555     Document Type: Article

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