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By providing insight into the cellular events of vascular injury and repair, experimental model systems seek to promote timely therapeutic strategies for human disease. The goal of many current studies of neovascularization is to identify cells critical to the process and their role in vascular channel assembly. We propose here a protocol to analyze, in an in vivo rodent model, vessel and capillary remodeling (reorganization and growth) in the injured lung. Sequential analyses of stages in the assembly of vascular structures, and of relevant cell types, provide further opportunities to study the molecular and cellular determinants of lung neovascularization.
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Supported by NIH R01HL 070866 (to R.C.J.), NIH R01CA 115767 (to R.K.J.) and by a Career Development Award to D.G.D. (from the American Association for Cancer Research-Genentech BioOncology).
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Jones, R., Capen, D., Petersen, B. et al. A protocol for a lung neovascularization model in rodents. Nat Protoc 3, 378–387 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2007.536
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