Blood-vessel formation: Bridges that guide and unite
- Journal name:Nature
- Volume:465,
- Pages:697–699
- Date published:(10 June 2010)
- DOI:doi:10.1038/465697a
- Published online:
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.
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