Blood Vessel Growth Differs Between Tissues, Opening Door to Tissue-Specific Therapy (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Blood Vessel Growth Differs Between Tissues, Opening Door to Tissue-Specific Therapy (1 of 4)

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Blood vessels sprouting across the cartilage rings of the trachea, with cells deficient in TSAd labelled with GFP. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 19, 2016, issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.J. Gordon at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, and colleagues was titled, "The endothelial adaptor molecule TSAd is required for VEGF-induced angiogenic sprouting through junctional c-Src activation."

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Emma Gordon

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