Vascular endothelial growth factor coordinates islet innervation via vascular scaffolding

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1480-1491

  Reinert, Rachel B ^a   Cai, Qing ^a   Hong, Ji Young ^a   Plank, Jennifer L ^a   Aamodt, Kristie ^a   Prasad, Nripesh ^b,c   Aramandla, Radhika ^a   Dai, Chunhua ^a   Levy, Shawn E ^b   Pozzi, Ambra ^a,d   Labosky, Patricia A ^a   Wright, Christopher V E ^a   Brissova, Marcela ^a   Powers, Alvin C ^a,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial cell; Innervation; Islet; Vascularization; VEGF

Indexed keywords

TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR SCAFFOLDING; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CAPILLARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; ISLET INNERVATION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ENDOTHELIAL CELL; INNERVATION; ISLET; VASCULARIZATION; VEGF;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84895748980     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.098657     Document Type: Article

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