Publication Date:
2014-07-31
Description:
Article The secreted ligand Angiopoietin-1 is essential for embryonic blood vessel development and adult vascular homeostasis. Here the authors show, using conditional knockout mice, that myocardium-derived Angiopoietin-1 is required for the formation of coronary veins, but not arteries. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms5552 Authors: Yoh Arita, Yoshikazu Nakaoka, Taichi Matsunaga, Hiroyasu Kidoya, Kohei Yamamizu, Yuichiro Arima, Takahiro Kataoka-Hashimoto, Kuniyasu Ikeoka, Taku Yasui, Takeshi Masaki, Kaori Yamamoto, Kaori Higuchi, Jin-Sung Park, Manabu Shirai, Koichi Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Kinya Otsu, Hiroki Kurihara, Takashi Minami, Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara, Gou Y. Koh, Naoki Mochizuki, Nobuyuki Takakura, Yasushi Sakata, Jun K. Yamashita, Issei Komuro
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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