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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 121, Issue 6, Pages 2157-2159Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI58196
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Twenty years after the discovery of the vascular endothelial Tie receptor tyrosine kinases and 15 years after the discovery of the Tie2 ligand, angiopoietin-1 (Angpt1, also known as Ang1), a study published in the current issue of the JCI reveals an unexpected loss-of-function phenotype of mice conditionally deleted of the Angpt1 gene. The results suggest that Angpt1 is needed as a vascular stabilizing factor that organizes and limits the angiogenesis response and protects from pathological consequences, such as tissue fibrosis.
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