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Endothelial laminins underlie the tip cell microenvironment
Author(s) -
Kitajewski Jan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2011.202
Subject(s) - basement membrane , laminin , microbiology and biotechnology , angiogenesis , cell , endothelial stem cell , biology , chemistry , extracellular matrix , cancer research , biochemistry , in vitro
The role of basement membrane laminin 411 in specifying tip cell behaviour during angiogenesis is described in this issue of EMBO reports . Here, these findings are contextualized with the rest of the players in the tip cell microenvironment.