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SUBMITTER: Kim M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3799495 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Minah M Park Hyeung Ju HJ Seol Jae Won JW Jang Jeon Yeob JY Cho Young-Suk YS Kim Kyu Rae KR Choi Youngsok Y Lydon John P JP Demayo Francesco J FJ Shibuya Masabumi M Ferrara Napoleone N Sung Hoon-Ki HK Nagy Andras A Alitalo Kari K Koh Gou Young GY
EMBO molecular medicine 20130802 9
The features and regulation of uterine angiogenesis and vascular remodelling during pregnancy are poorly defined. Here we show that dynamic and variable decidual angiogenesis (sprouting, intussusception and networking), and active vigorous vascular remodelling such as enlargement and elongation of 'vascular sinus folding' (VSF) and mural cell drop-out occur distinctly in a spatiotemporal manner in the rapidly growing mouse uterus during early pregnancy - just after implantation but before placen ...[more]