Cardiac Mouse Lymphatics: Developmental and Anatomical Update

Anatomical Record

Volumn 297, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1115-1130

  Flaht Zabost, Aleksandra ^a   Gula, Grzegorz ^b   Ciszek, Bogdan ^b   Czarnowska, Elzbieta ^b   Jankowska Steifer, Ewa ^c   Madej, Maria ^b   Niderla Bielińska, Justyna ^c   Radomska Leśniewska, Dorota ^c   Ratajska, Anna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cardiac mouse lymphatics; CD31; CD34; Collector vessels; Lymphangiogenesis; Lyve 1; Podoplanin; Prox 1; VEGFR2; VEGFR3; VWF

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; CD133 ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; MOLECULAR MARKER; PODOPLANIN; PROTEIN LYVE 1; PROTEIN PROX 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC LYMPHATIC; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY VEIN; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPICARDIUM; FETUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; PHYSIOLOGY;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEART; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MICE;

EID: 84901276935     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22912     Document Type: Article

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