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SCIENCE
Volume 322, Issue 5905, Pages 1247-1250Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1164594
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- Wenner-Gren Foundations (Sweden)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [HL076393]
- NIH [DK054364]
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Every organ depends on blood vessels for oxygen and nutrients, but the vasculature associated with individual organs can be structurally and molecularly diverse. The central nervous system (CNS) vasculature consists of a tightly sealed endothelium that forms the blood- brain barrier, whereas blood vessels of other organs are more porous. Wnt7a and Wnt7b encode two Wnt ligands produced by the neuroepithelium of the developing CNS coincident with vascular invasion. Using genetic mouse models, we found that these ligands directly target the vascular endothelium and that the CNS uses the canonical Wnt signaling pathway to promote formation and CNS- specific differentiation of the organ's vasculature.
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