New insights in how blood vessels increase their size
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
A new study addresses a long standing question in the wider field of developmental biology and tissue patterning in general, and in the vascular biology field in particular: ‘What are the fundamental mechanisms controlling size and shape of tubular organ systems’. Whereas the most obvious way to grow a tube in size would be to add more building blocks (by proliferating cells) to enlarge its circumference, or to increase the size of the building blocks (the cells, hypertrophy), an alternative way would be to rearrange existing building blocks.