A Prickly Problem: Hedgehog Signaling In Heart's Blood Vessels

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 22:14 in Health & Medicine

New data, generated by David Ornitz and colleagues, at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, have indicated a crucial role for signaling pathways that involve the protein sonic hedgehog in maintaining the blood vessels that supply the mouse heart and keep it beating.

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