Investigating human vascular tube morphogenesis and maturation using endothelial cell-pericyte co-cultures and a doxycycline-inducible genetic system in 3D extracellular matrices

Tissue Morphogenesis: Methods and Protocols

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 171-189

  Bowers, Stephanie L K ^a   Meng, Chun Xia ^a   Davis, Matthew T ^a   Davis, George E ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial cells; Hematopoietic stem cell cytokines; Inducible gene expression; Pericytes; Serum free defined conditions; Three dimensional extracellular matrix; Tube formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921851999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1164-6_12     Document Type: Chapter

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