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DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS
Volume 238, Issue 11, Pages 2760-2769Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22103
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VEGF; coronary vasculogenesis; VESGEN; TuJ; QH-1; endothelial progenitor cells
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- NEI/NIDDK [R01EY17529]
- NIH R01 [HL65314]
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We hypothesized that oxygen gradients and hypoxia-responsive signaling may play a role in the patterning of neural or vascular cells recruited to the developing heart. Endothelial progenitor and neural cells are recruited to and form branched structures adjacent to the relatively hypoxic outflow tract (OFT) myocardium from stages 27-32 (ED6.5-7.5) of chick development. As determined by whole mount confocal microscopy, the neural and vascular structures were not anatomically associated. Adenoviral delivery of a VEGF trap dramatically affected the remodeling of the vascular plexus into a coronary tree while neuronal branching was normal. Both neuronal and vascular branching was diminished in the hearts of embryos incubated under hyperoxic conditions. Quantitative analysis of the vascular defects using our recently developed VESGEN program demonstrated reduced small vessel branching and increased vessel diameters. We propose that vascular and neural patterning in the developing heart share dependence on tissue oxygen gradients but are not interdependent. Developmental Dynamics 238.2760-2769,2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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