Published in Proteomics Weekly, November 7th, 2005
"Eph receptor tyrosine kinases and their ligands (ephrins) are key players during the development of the embryonic vasculature; however, their role and regulation in adult angiogenesis remain to be defined. Both receptors and ligands have been shown to be up-regulated in a variety of tumors," scientists in Switzerland report.
"To address the hypothesis that hypoxia is an important regulator of Ephs/ephrins expression, we developed a mouse skin flap model of hypoxia," said M.M. Vihanto and colleagues, University of Bern.
"We demonstrate that our model truly represents...
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Source: Proteomics Weekly (2005-11-07)
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