Assembly of the vasculature and its regulation
By: Robert J. Tomanek, editor.
Contributors: Tomanek, Robert J.
Series: Cardiovascular molecular morphogenesis
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Blood Vessels -- embryology; Blood Vessels -- physiology; Endothelium, Vascular -- embryology; Endothelium, Vascular -- physiology; Morphogenesis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The development of blood vesels: cellular and molecular mechanisms.; title: The role of vascular endothelial growth factors and their receptors during embryonic vascular development.; title: The ties that bind: emerging concepts about the structure and function of angiopoietins and their receptors in angiogenesis.; title: Extracellular matrix in the regulation of angiogenesis.; title: The role of cell adhesion receptors in vascular development: an overview.; title: Development and differentiation of vascular smooth muscle.; title: Vascular development of the heart.; title: Vascular development of the brain and spinal cord.; title: Vascular development of the kidney.; title: Vascular development of the lung.; title: Vascularization of the placenta.