Angiogenesis (Cell Biology)

Molecular Link Discovered that Allows Cells To Form Blood Vessels

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 26th, 1999

Scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, have cracked an important step in the code that cells destined to form blood vessels use to recognize and connect to one another.

The findings by researchers in the Vanderbilt Cancer Center and the Vanderbilt Center for Vascular Biology could have implications for treatment of two leading causes of death, heart disease and cancer. The findings also may contribute to a better understanding of how an embryo's circulatory system develops.

In the early formation of blood vessels, endothelial cells, which line large blood vessels and form the capillaries, are stimulated to...

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