Choroid Sprouting Assay: An Ex Vivo Model of Microvascular Angiogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Shao, Zhuo ^a   Friedlander, Mollie ^a   Hurst, Christian G ^a   Cui, Zhenghao ^a   Pei, Dorothy T ^a   Evans, Lucy P ^a   Juan, Aimee M ^a   Tahir, Houda ^c   Duhamel, François ^b,c   Chen, Jing ^a   Sapieha, Przemyslaw ^b   Chemtob, Sylvain ^b,c   Joyal, Jean Sébastien ^a   Smith, Lois E H ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXY DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACCURACY; AGING; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOROID; CHOROID SPROUTING ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; MACROPHAGE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION;

AGING; ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHOROID; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOCYTES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERICYTES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84880818823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069552     Document Type: Article

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