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STEM CELLS
卷 25, 期 12, 页码 2987-2995出版社
ALPHAMED PRESS
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0397
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vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2; Flk1; vascular endothelial growth factor; stem cells; embryoid bodies differentiation; endothelial cells; angiogenesis
The vascular endothelial growth factor ( VEGF) family and its receptors are important for vascular development and maintenance of blood vessels, as well as for angiogenesis, the formation of new vessels. Loss of VEGF receptor-2 (VEGFR-2; designated Flk-1 in mouse) results in arrest of vascular and hematopoietic development in vivo. We used lentiviral transduction to reconstitute VEGFR-2 expression in flk1-/- embryonic stem (ES) cells. VEGF-induced vasculogenesis and sprouting angiogenesis were rescued in transduced ES cultures differentiating in vitro as EBs. Although the transgene was expressed in the pluripotent stem cells and lacked linage restriction during differentiation, the extent of endothelial recruitment was similar to that in wild-type EBs. Reconstitution of VEGFR-2 in flk1-/- ES cells allowed only precommitted precursors to differentiate into functional endothelial cells able to organize into vascular structures. Chimeric EB cultures composed of wild-type ES cells mixed with flk1-/- ES cells or reconstituted VEGFR-2expressing ES cells were created. In the chimeric cultures, flk1-/- endothelial precursors were excluded from wild-type vessel structures, whereas reconstituted VEGFR-2-expressing precursors became integrated together with wild-type endothelial cells to form chimeric vessels. We conclude that maturation of endothelial precursors, as well as organization into vascular structures, requires expression of VEGFR-2.
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