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CD34 marks angiogenic tip cells in human vascular endothelial cell cultures.
Angiogenesis - 1 Mar 2012
Siemerink Martin J, Klaassen Ingeborg, Vogels Ilse M C, Griffioen Arjan W, Van Noorden Cornelis J F, Schlingemann Reinier O
Abstract excerpt
The functional shift of quiescent endothelial cells into tip cells that migrate and stalk cells that proliferate is a key event during sprouting angiogenesis. We previously showed that the sialomucin CD34 is expressed in a small subset of cultured endothelial cells and that these cells extend filopodia: a hallmark of tip cells in vivo. In the present study, we characterized endothelial cells expressing CD34 in...
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