Cerebral angiogenesis during development: Who is conducting the orchestra?

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1135, Issue , 2014, Pages 3-20

  Wittko Schneider, Ina M ^a   Schneider, Fabian T ^b   Plate, Karl H ^c  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Brain angiogenesis; Development; Guidance molecules; Signaling pathways; Stalk cell; Tip cell

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 2; EPHRIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR; INTEGRIN; JAGGED1; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; NETRIN; NEUROPILIN; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; PLACENTAL GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN PATCHED; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TIE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN B; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D; VASCULOTROPIN E; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; WNT PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPENDYMA; HUMAN; MACROGLIA; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 84927915493     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-320-7_1     Document Type: Article

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