Model for new generation of blood vessels challenged
Date: 4.6.2009
In-growth and **new generation of blood vessels**, which must take place if a wound is to heal or a **tumor** is to grow, have been thought to occur through a branching and further growth of a vessel against a chemical gradient of growth factors. Now a research team at Uppsala University and its University Hospital has shown that mechanical forces are considerably more important than was previously thought. The findings, published today in the journal Nature Medicine.
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