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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
Abstract excerpt
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 choroidal or fenestrated (FV) rather than, according to the hypothesis, continuous (CV), like those of muscle. In E14 fetal...
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