Controlling Inflated Blood Vessels (3 of 7) (IMAGE)
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Staining of surface brain vasculature, showing the expression of a gene preferentially expressed in the veins (EphB4) in blue. Counter-staining in brown shows all of the perfused brain vasculature. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 18, 2012, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. P.A. Murphy of the University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif., and colleagues, was titled, “Notch4 Normalization Reduces Blood Vessel Size in Arteriovenous Malformations.”
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