Blood Flow Changes Coincide with Cellular Rearrangements during Blood Vessel Pruning in Zebrafish Embryos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Kochhan, Eva ^a   Lenard, Anna ^b   Ellertsdottir, Elin ^b   Herwig, Lukas ^b   Affolter, Markus ^b   Belting, Heinz Georg ^b   Siekmann, Arndt F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL PRUNING; CELL DEATH; CELLULAR REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENDOTHELIAL TUBE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEMODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL DEATH; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EYE; HEMODYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84885413188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075060     Document Type: Article

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