An angiogenesis model for investigating multicellular interactions across intact microvascular networks

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Stapor, Peter C ^a   Azimi, Mohammad S ^a   Ahsan, Tabassum ^a   Murfee, Walter L ^a  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary sprouting; Lymphangiogenesis; Microcirculation; Pericyte

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BETA TUBULIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; LYMPHATIC VESSEL ENDOTHELIAL HYALURONAN RECEPTOR 1; NEURON GLIAL ANTIGEN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENTERY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, CD31; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, LYMPHATIC; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENTERY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERICYTES; PROTEOGLYCANS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TIME FACTORS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TUBULIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84872395148     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00552.2012     Document Type: Article

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