Understanding vascular development

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 327-346

  Udan, Ryan S ^a   Culver, James C ^a   Dickinson, Mary E ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; APELIN RECEPTOR; CD31 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; EPHRIN B2; EPHRIN RECEPTOR B4; FIBRIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LAMININ; NEUROPILIN 1; NEUROPILIN 2; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; PODOPLANIN; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX18; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAL1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEVELOPMENT; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84884242252     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.91     Document Type: Review

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