Biology and therapeutic targeting of vascular endothelial growth factor A

L Pérez-Gutiérrez, N Ferrara - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of new blood vessels, called angiogenesis, is an essential pathophysiological
process in which several families of regulators have been implicated. Among these, vascular …

Mechanisms and regulation of endothelial VEGF receptor signalling

M Simons, E Gordon, L Claesson-Welsh - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) and their receptors (VEGFRs) are uniquely
required to balance the formation of new blood vessels with the maintenance and …

Ten years of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy

N Ferrara, AP Adamis - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2016 - nature.com
The targeting of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), a crucial regulator of both
normal and pathological angiogenesis, has revealed innovative therapeutic approaches in …

Vascular endothelial growth factor signaling in development and disease

S Karaman, VM Leppänen, K Alitalo - Development, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) are best known for their involvement in
orchestrating the development and maintenance of the blood and lymphatic vascular …

The molecular basis of endothelial cell plasticity

E Dejana, KK Hirschi, M Simons - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The endothelium is capable of remarkable plasticity. In the embryo, primitive endothelial
cells differentiate to acquire arterial, venous or lymphatic fates. Certain endothelial cells also …

Passing the vascular barrier: endothelial signaling processes controlling extravasation

N Wettschureck, B Strilic… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
A central function of the vascular endothelium is to serve as a barrier between the blood and
the surrounding tissue of the body. At the same time, solutes and cells have to pass the …

YAP/TAZ orchestrate VEGF signaling during developmental angiogenesis

X Wang, AF Valls, G Schermann, Y Shen, IM Moya… - Developmental cell, 2017 - cell.com
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a major driver of blood vessel formation.
However, the signal transduction pathways culminating in the biological consequences of …

VEGFA and tumour angiogenesis

L Claesson‐Welsh, M Welsh - Journal of internal medicine, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this review we summarize the current understanding of signal transduction downstream of
vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) and its receptor VEGFR 2, and the relationship …

Lacteal junction zippering protects against diet-induced obesity

F Zhang, G Zarkada, J Han, J Li, A Dubrac, R Ola… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Excess dietary lipid uptake causes obesity, a major global health problem. Enterocyte-
absorbed lipids are packaged into chylomicrons, which enter the bloodstream through …

Mechanisms regulating endothelial permeability

S Sukriti, M Tauseef, P Yazbeck… - Pulmonary …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The endothelial monolayer partitioning underlying tissue from blood components in the
vessel wall maintains tissue fluid balance and host defense through dynamically opening …