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Characterization of the vasculogenic block in the absence of vascular endothelial growth factor-A.
Blood - 15 Mar 2000
Bautch V L, Redick S D, Scalia A, Harmaty M, Carmeliet P, Rapoport R
Abstract excerpt
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling is required for both differentiation and proliferation of vascular endothelium. Analysis of differentiated embryonic stem cells with one or both VEGF-A alleles deleted showed that both the differentiation and the expansion of endothelial cells are blocked during vasculogenesis. Blood island formation was reduced by half in hemizygous mutant VEGF cultures and by...
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