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VEGFR-3 controls tip to stalk conversion at vessel fusion sites by reinforcing Notch signalling

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Cell Biology, September 2011
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Title
VEGFR-3 controls tip to stalk conversion at vessel fusion sites by reinforcing Notch signalling
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Nature Cell Biology, September 2011
DOI 10.1038/ncb2331
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Tuomas Tammela, Georgia Zarkada, Harri Nurmi, Lars Jakobsson, Krista Heinolainen, Denis Tvorogov, Wei Zheng, Claudio A. Franco, Aino Murtomäki, Evelyn Aranda, Naoyuki Miura, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Marcus Fruttiger, Taija Mäkinen, Anne Eichmann, Jeffrey W. Pollard, Holger Gerhardt, Kari Alitalo

Abstract

Angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, involves specification of endothelial cells to tip cells and stalk cells, which is controlled by Notch signalling, whereas vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR)-2 and VEGFR-3 have been implicated in angiogenic sprouting. Surprisingly, we found that endothelial deletion of Vegfr3, but not VEGFR-3-blocking antibodies, postnatally led to excessive angiogenic sprouting and branching, and decreased the level of Notch signalling, indicating that VEGFR-3 possesses passive and active signalling modalities. Furthermore, macrophages expressing the VEGFR-3 and VEGFR-2 ligand VEGF-C localized to vessel branch points, and Vegfc heterozygous mice exhibited inefficient angiogenesis characterized by decreased vascular branching. FoxC2 is a known regulator of Notch ligand and target gene expression, and Foxc2(+/-);Vegfr3(+/-) compound heterozygosity recapitulated homozygous loss of Vegfr3. These results indicate that macrophage-derived VEGF-C activates VEGFR-3 in tip cells to reinforce Notch signalling, which contributes to the phenotypic conversion of endothelial cells at fusion points of vessel sprouts.

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Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Unknown 336 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 88 25%
Researcher 75 22%
Student > Master 36 10%
Student > Bachelor 28 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 5%
Other 57 16%
Unknown 44 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 142 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 68 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 40 12%
Engineering 14 4%
Neuroscience 6 2%
Other 26 7%
Unknown 51 15%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 October 2011.
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#4,009,568
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