Nerve control of blood vessel patterning. 2013

Takako Makita
Developmental Neuroscience Program, The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA. makita@usc.edu

Patterning of embryonic blood vessels occurs in association with nerves. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Li et al. (2013) report that nerve-derived chemokine Cxcl12 (also known as SDF-1), acting through its receptor Cxcr4, initiates blood vessel remodeling along cutaneous nerve trajectories to establish the proper pattern of cutaneous arteries.

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