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Differentiation of blood-brain barrier endothelial cells.
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Mar 1998
Risau W, Esser S, Engelhardt B
Abstract excerpt
The vascular system of the central nervous system is derived from capillary endothelial cells, which have invaded the early embryonic neuroectoderm from the perineural vascular plexus. This process is called angiogenesis and is probably regulated by brain-derived factors. Vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF) is an angiogenic growth factor whose expression correlated with embryonic brain angiogenesis,...
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