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SUBMITTER: Fonseca CG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7487603 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fonseca Catarina G CG Barbacena Pedro P Franco Claudio A CA
Vascular biology (Bristol, England) 20200702 1
The vascular system is a hierarchically organized network of blood vessels that play crucial roles in embryogenesis, homeostasis and disease. Blood vessels are built by endothelial cells - the cells lining the interior of blood vessels - through a process named vascular morphogenesis. Endothelial cells react to different biomechanical signals in their environment by adjusting their behavior to: (1) invade, proliferate and fuse to form new vessels (angiogenesis); (2) remodel, regress and establis ...[more]