The primary requirement for a body appendage or evagination to be identified as a gill or ctenidium is the high vascularization of the respiratory surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

There may be useful growth response information in such parameters as cell-wall thickness, cell volume, cambium vascularization, or lignin/cellulose ratios, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treydte, Moberg, Soon and Baliunas « Climate Audit] Reference

As the body volume increases, however, the relative surface area decreases and specialized organs that concentrate blood vessels vascularization in pockets of increased surface area, achieved by folding or filaments, become necessary to extract sufficient oxygen from the surrounding medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of a breath—Part 1] Reference

As the body volume increases, however, the relative surface area decreases and specialized organs that concentrate blood vessels (vascularization) in pockets of increased surface area, achieved by folding or filaments, become necessary to extract sufficient oxygen from the surrounding medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Erk2 −/− mice are embryonic lethal before vascularization and angiogenesis occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Interestingly, FTY-720 inhibits tumor vascularization in a murine model of metastatic melanoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biotech Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

The tumor appears to seize the signaling system of vascularization and, thus, to strengthen its malignant properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Mucosal vascularization was quantified by computerized morphometric analysis of CD31-stained distal colonic sections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

The crucial step in rescuing tissues from ischemia is improvement of vascularization that can be achieved by promoting neovascularization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elites TV] Reference

While the role of VEGF in developmental and pathologic retinal vascularization is well understood, its function in the normal adult is unclear.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The operated testis was smaller than the normal testis in all cases, despite the good vascularization detected on echo color Doppler ultrasound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

Cultured renal primordia lack vascularization and a supportive matrix for normal growth, resulting in tissue compression and distortion of ureteric branching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

This discovery led us to examine vascularization in adult Sprouty4 single KO mice in detail, although Sprouty4 single KO mice showed no obvious vascular phenotype.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Additionally, P4 has been suggested to play a role in human fetoplacental vascularization by regulating the proliferation of placental vascular smooth muscle cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Furthermore, normal retinal vascularization requires the coordinated expression of specific VEGF isoforms, which differ in their solubility and binding to VEGF receptors.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Sanuwave's portfolio of products and product candidates activate biologic signaling and angiogenic responses, including new vascularization and microcirculatory improvement, helping to restore the body's normal healing processes and regeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [DWS Full News Feed] Reference

Additional studies are currently being conducted to determine the clinical viability of these hydrogels as therapeutic vascularization therapies to treat peripheral artery disease and ischemic heart disease, and cell transplantation to treat diabetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference

SurgiMend PRS incorporates a dense network of fenestrations, as fenestrations have been shown to assist in fluid drainage and to improve vascularization and incorporation, while also providing gradual and directional stretching as needed when used with expanders.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

ONCAD's fractal mathematics and proprietary algorithms not only enhance the detection of both invasive and noninvasive lesions, the approach also delineates the extent of the disease by measuring margin sharpness to determine the degree of lesion vascularization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

This close association between melanoma progression and Ang2 level prompted the question of whether the Ang2 growth factor really only stimulates vascularization in the tumor or whether it has additional influence on the properties of the cancer cells themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

The microvascular patterns often found in tumor masses include enlarged vessel walls and septa that are not uniform, but are often arched or branched or looped in pattern, thus creating an unorganized support structure and inefficient vascularization throughout the tumor.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The study of nearly 20,000 men and women aged 50 and above demonstrated that controlled use of Crestor reduced the combined risk of stroke, arterial re-vascularization, and death from cardiovascular causes among patients who currently do not have a high risk of developing heart disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkish Press] Reference

The endothelial cell marker CD31 will be used to evaluate overall microvessel density and a ratio of immature vasculature versus total vascularization will be measured by positive CD105 expression against CD31. is one of the most common cancers in the United States, with more than 170,000 cases diagnosed each year.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Differences concerning the shape and the vascularization of fungiform papillae were also observed, "study leader Pavlidis Pavlos, of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and colleagues said in a news release from the journal's publisher. may cause functional and morphological alterations of papillae, at least in young adults," they concluded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Since the degree of tumor lymphangiogenesis and vascularization may theoretically be related to the risk of lymph node metastasis, we sought to evaluate the relationship between lymph vessel invasion (LVI), lymphatic microvascular density (LVD), microvascular density (MVD) and VEGF-A expression, with SLN status and other known adverse clinical risk factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

But whether it is or not, it’s not logically ruled out by the narrow width of the human birth canal, top-on retinal vascularization, hemorrhoids, impacted wisdom teeth, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Perimeter of Ignorance - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Yet even a glance at Fig. 1 utterly destroys Denton’s arguments–the extensive vascularization is quite apparent, as is the presence of pigment to prevent light scattering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"For this patient population, enhancing quality of life and reducing the need for repeat vascularization procedures represents significant progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

It seems that vascularization can proceed through the mechanical translocation and expansion of existing vessels, which loop into vascularising tissue (pages 657?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random feeds from Syndic8.com] Reference

To support our hypothesis that MSC contribute to the TAF population within the tumor microenvironment, we stained the admixed and Skov-3 only tumors sections for four different TAF characteristics: fibroblast surface markers, markers of vascularization, markers of invasiveness and aggressiveness and expression of tumor-promoting growth factors (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

We define the MSC derived TAF in a xenograft ovarian carcinoma model by the immunohistochemical presence of 1) fibroblast specific protein and fibroblast activated protein; 2) markers phenotypically associated with aggressiveness, including tenascin-c, thrombospondin-1, and stromelysin-1; 3) production of pro-tumorigenic growth factors including hepatocyte growth factor, epidermal growth factor, and interleukin-6; and 4) factors indicative of vascularization, including alpha-smooth muscle actin, desmin, and vascular endothelial growth factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(B) The TAF is a fibroblastic cell that has four defining characteristics, which together, distinguish it from the normal fibroblast: The fibroblastic nature of the cell (red; Fibroblast activation protein and fibroblast specific protein); the aggressive / invasive nature of the cell defined by the secreted proteins (green; TSP-1, Tn-C and SL1); the vascularization potential of the cell (blue; α-SMA, desmin and VEGF); and the growth factors secreted by the cell to aid in tumor growth and development (doi: 10.1371 / journal. pone.0004992.g001.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference