Bridges that guide and unite

Thomas Schmidt and Peter Carmeliet
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Thomas Schmidt: Thomas Schmidt and Peter Carmeliet are at the Vesalius Research Center, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Leuven, B-3000, Belgium. peter.carmeliet@vib-kuleuven.be
Peter Carmeliet: Thomas Schmidt and Peter Carmeliet are at the Vesalius Research Center, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Leuven, B-3000, Belgium. peter.carmeliet@vib-kuleuven.be

Nature, 2010, vol. 465, issue 7299, 697-699

Abstract: To form new blood vessels, the endothelial tip cells of two existing vessels come together by the process of anastomosis. But how do they find each other? Macrophages seem to provide a bridge and mediate their union.

Date: 2010
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