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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Raquel del Toro
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-347 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
del Toro Raquel R Prahst Claudia C Mathivet Thomas T Siegfried Geraldine G Kaminker Joshua S JS Larrivee Bruno B Breant Christiane C Duarte Antonio A Takakura Nobuyuki N Fukamizu Akiyoshi A Penninger Josef J Eichmann Anne A
Blood 20100812 19
Sprouting of developing blood vessels is mediated by specialized motile endothelial cells localized at the tips of growing capillaries. Following behind the tip cells, endothelial stalk cells form the capillary lumen and proliferate. Expression of the Notch ligand Delta-like-4 (Dll4) in tip cells suppresses tip cell fate in neighboring stalk cells via Notch signaling. In DLL4(+/-) mouse mutants, most retinal endothelial cells display morphologic features of tip cells. We hypothesized that these ...[more]