PUBLICATION
Vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors in embryonic zebrafish blood vessel development
- Authors
- Goishi, K., and Klagsbrun, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-041104-10
- Date
- 2004
- Source
- Current topics in developmental biology 62: 127-152 (Chapter)
- Registered Authors
- Goishi, Katsutoshi
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Blood Vessels/embryology*
- Blood Vessels/metabolism*
- Humans
- Immunophilins/metabolism
- Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor/metabolism*
- Semaphorins/metabolism
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 15522741 Full text @ Curr. Top. Dev. Biol.
Citation
Goishi, K., and Klagsbrun, M. (2004) Vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors in embryonic zebrafish blood vessel development. Current topics in developmental biology. 62:127-152.
Abstract
There is intense interest in how blood vessel development is regulated. A number of vascular growth factors and their receptors have been described. The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptors are major contributors to normal mammalian vascular development. These receptors include VEGFR-1, VEGFR-2, VEGFR-3, neuropilin-1 (NRP1), and NRP2. The function of these genes have been determined to some degree in mouse gene targeting studies. These knockouts are embryonicly lethal, and early death can be attributed in part to lack of normal blood and lymphatic vessel development. More recently, it has been demonstrated that zebrafish are an excellent model for studying the genes and proteins that regulate embryonic vascular development. Zebrafish have a number of advantages compared to mice, including rapid embryonic development and the ability to examine and manipulate embryos outside of the animal. In this review, we describe some of the earlier mouse VEGF/receptor functional studies and emphasize the development of the zebrafish vasculature. We describe the zebrafish vasculature, zebrafish VEGF and VEGF receptors, advantages of the zebrafish model, resources, and methods of determining growth factor and receptor function.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping