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Molecular Control of Capillary Tube Morphogenesis
and Maturation Through Endothelial Cell-Pericyte
Interactions: Regulation by Small GTPase-Mediated
Signaling, Kinase Cascades, Extracellular Matrix
Remodeling, and Defined Growth Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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George E. Davis
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Mechanical Regulation of Vascularization in Three-Dimensional
Engineered Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Barak Zohar, Shira Landau, and Shulamit Levenberg
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Physiological and Pathological Vascular Aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Patrícia R. Pitrez, Helena R. Aires, Inês Tomé, Rita Sá Ferreira,
and Lino Ferreira
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Hypoxia and Matrix Manipulation for Vascular Engineering . . . . . . 73
Michael R. Blatchley, Hasan E. Abaci, Donny Hanjaya-Putra,
and Sharon Gerecht
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3D Printing Technology for Vascularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Enoch Yeung, Pooja Yesantharao, Chin Siang Ong,
and Narutoshi Hibino
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Strategies for Tissue Engineering Vascularized Cardiac
Patches to Treat Myocardial Infarctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Justin Morrissette-McAlmon, Robert N. Hawthorne,
Shawna Snyder, and Warren L. Grayson
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Pro-Angiogenic Regenerative Therapies for the Damaged
Brain: A Tissue Engineering Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Lina R. Nih, Stanley T. Carmichael, and Tatiana Segura
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
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