Contact-inhibited chemotaxis in de novo and sprouting blood-vessel growth.
Blood vessels form either when dispersed endothelial cells (the cells lining the inner walls of fully formed blood vessels) organize into a vessel network (vasculogenesis), or by sprouting or splitting of existing blood vessels (angiogenesis). Although they are closely related biologically, no curre...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008-09-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2528254?pdf=render |