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ArticleNature communications2018

Blood flow-induced Notch activation and endothelial migration enable vascular remodeling in zebrafish embryos.

Bart Weijts, Edgar Gutierrez, Semion K Saikin, Ararat J Ablooglu, David Traver, Alex Groisman, Eugene Tkachenko

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Bart WeijtsDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4843-3019
Edgar GutierrezDpartment of Physics, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
Semion K SaikinDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1924-3961
Ararat J AbloogluDepartment of Medicine, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
David TraverDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. dtraver@ucsd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9652-7653
Alex GroismanDpartment of Physics, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. agroisman@ucsd.edu.
Eugene TkachenkoDepartment of Medicine, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA. etkachen@gmail.com.

Funding

The Interaction of TPO and Integrins in Hematopoiesis CellsP01HL078784 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GINSBERG, MARK HOWARD · 2005 to 2019
$28.3M
Endothelial Mechanotaxis During DevelopmentR56HL124195 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TKACHENKO, EUGENE · 2016 to 2016
$388k
American Heart Association-American Stroke Association 14SDG20380181NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL078784NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL124195
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arteries and veins are formed independently by different types of endothelial cells (ECs). In vascular remodeling, arteries and veins become connected and some arteries become veins. It is unclear how ECs in transforming vessels change their type and how fates of individual vessels are determined. In embryonic zebrafish trunk, vascular remodeling transforms arterial intersegmental vessels (ISVs) into a functional network of arteries and veins. Here we find that, once an ISV is connected to venous circulation, venous blood flow promotes upstream migration of ECs that results in displacement of arterial ECs by venous ECs, completing the transformation of this ISV into a vein without trans-differentiation of ECs. Arterial blood flow initiated in two neighboring ISVs prevents their transformation into veins by activating Notch signaling in ECs. Together, different responses of ECs to arterial and venous blood flow lead to formation of a balanced network with equal numbers of arteries and veins.

Indexed as

AnimalsArteriesCell DifferentiationEndothelial CellsGATA1 Transcription FactorIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMorpholinosReceptors, NotchSignal TransductionVascular RemodelingVeinsZebrafishZebrafish ProteinsDll4 protein, zebrafishgata1a protein, zebrafishGATA1 Transcription FactorIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMorpholinosReceptors, NotchZebrafish Proteins

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PMID30552331
PMCPMC6294260

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