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The lymphatic endothelium of the avian wing is of somitic origin
1 Mar 2000
Abstract excerpt
It has recently been shown that there are lymphangioblasts in the early avian wing bud, but fate map studies on the origin of these cells have not yet been performed. The lymphatics in the wings of 10-day-old chick and quail embryos are characterized by both the position along with all major blood vascular routes and by the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) expression. In the quail, the...
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