| Literature DB >> 25271481 |
Carmen M Warren1, M Luisa Iruela-Arispe2.
Abstract
Expansion of a vascular network requires breaking through the basement membrane, a highly crosslinked barrier that tightly adheres to mature vessels. Angiogenic endothelial cells are now shown to form podosome rosettes that are able to focally degrade the extracellular matrix, prior to vascular sprouting in tumour angiogenesis.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25271481 PMCID: PMC8128323 DOI: 10.1038/ncb3044
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Cell Biol ISSN: 1465-7392 Impact factor: 28.824