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Vascular endothelial growth factor C induces angiogenesis in vivo

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Cao, Yihai, Linden, Philip, Farnebo, Jacob, Cao, Renhai, Eriksson, Anna, Kumar, Vijay, Qi, Jian-Hua, Claesson-Welsh, Lena, Alitalo, Kari·1998·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) recently has been described to be a relatively specific growth factor for the lymphatic vascular system. Here we report that ectopic application of recombinant VEGF-C also has potent angiogenic effects in vivo . VEGF-C is sufficiently potent to stimulate neovascularization from limbal vessels in the mouse cornea. Similar to VEGF, the angiogenic response of corneas induced by VEGF-C is intensive, with a high density of new capillaries. However, the outgrowth of microvessels stimulated by VEGF-C was significantly longer than that induced by VEGF. In the developing embryo, VEGF-C was able to induce branch sprouts from the established blood vessels. VEGF-C also induced an elongated, spindle-like cell shape change and actin reorganization in both VEGF receptor (VEGFR)-2 and VEGFR-3-overexpressing endothelial cells, but not in VEGFR-1-expressing cells. Further, both VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3 could mediate proliferative and chemotactic responses in endothelial cells on VEGF-C stimulation. Thus, VEGF-C may regulate physiological angiogenesis and participate in the development and progression of angiogenic diseases in addition to lymphangiogenesis.

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Authors
Cao, Y., Linden, P., Farnebo, J., Cao, R., Eriksson, A., Kumar, V., Qi, J.-H., Claesson-Welsh, L., & Alitalo, K.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
1998-11-24
Volume
95
Issue
24
Pages
14389-14394
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
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565
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45
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journal article
Language
en
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Cao, Y., Linden, P., Farnebo, J., Cao, R., Eriksson, A., Kumar, V., Qi, J.-H., Claesson-Welsh, L., & Alitalo, K. (1998). Vascular endothelial growth factor C induces angiogenesis in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.24.14389

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