Haemodynamics-Driven Developmental Pruning of Brain Vasculature in Zebrafish

This in vivo time-lapse imaging study in zebrafish reveals how changes to brain blood flow drive vessel pruning via endothelial cell migration, and how pruning leads to the simplification of the brain vasculature during development.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2012-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001374PMID 22904685PMCID 3419171
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