Conditions that may determine blood vessel phenotype in tissues grafted to brain.

doi:10.1006/exnr.1995.1053

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Conditions that may determine blood vessel phenotype in tissues grafted to brain.

Experimental neurology - 1 Aug 1995

Naito S, Chang L, Pettigrew K, Ishihara S, Brightman M

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The hypothesis, that a blood vessel's phenotype is determined by the tissue it vascularizes and not by the vessel's source, does not hold for tissue beyond a certain period of development. In mature skeletal muscle grafted to choroid plexus of adult and 2-week-old rats, some vessels were choroida...

Topics

Animals
Blood Vessels
Choroid Plexus
Embryonic and Fetal Development
Fetal Tissue Transplantation
Gestational Age
Muscle, Skeletal
Phenotype
Rats
Rats, Inbred F344

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