Morph or Move? How Distinct Endothelial Cell Responses to Blood Flow Shape Vascular Networks

Publication date: 19 June 2017
Source:Developmental Cell, Volume 41, Issue 6
Author(s): Claudio A. Franco, Holger Gerhardt
Blood vessel shape is malleable and dynamically regulated. In two recent papers in Nature Cell Biology, Jin et al. (2017) and Sugden et al. (2017) show that endoglin alters endothelial cell shape or behavior in response to blood flow, thus regulating vessel structure.

Teaser

Blood vessel shape is malleable and dynamically regulated. In two recent papers in Nature Cell Biology, Jin et al. (2017) and Sugden et al. (2017) show that endoglin alters endothelial cell shape or behavior in response to blood flow, thus regulating vessel structure.


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