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Common mechanisms of nerve and blood vessel wiring

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  • Peter Carmeliet

    (University of Leuven)

  • Marc Tessier-Lavigne

    (Genentech Inc)

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Blood vessels and nerve fibres course throughout the body in an orderly pattern, often alongside one another. Although superficially distinct, the mechanisms involved in wiring neural and vascular networks seem to share some deep similarities. The discovery of key axon guidance molecules over the past decade has shown that axons are guided to their targets by finely tuned codes of attractive and repulsive cues, and recent studies reveal that these cues also help blood vessels to navigate to their targets. Parallels have also emerged between the actions of growth factors that direct angiogenic sprouting and those that regulate axon terminal arborization.

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  • Peter Carmeliet & Marc Tessier-Lavigne, 2005. "Common mechanisms of nerve and blood vessel wiring," Nature, Nature, vol. 436(7048), pages 193-200, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:436:y:2005:i:7048:d:10.1038_nature03875
    DOI: 10.1038/nature03875
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