Extensive Vasculogenesis, Angiogenesis, and Organogenesis Precede Lethality in Mice Lacking All αv Integrins

@article{Bader1998ExtensiveVA,  title={Extensive Vasculogenesis, Angiogenesis, and Organogenesis Precede Lethality in Mice Lacking All $\alpha$v Integrins},  author={Bernhard L. Bader and Helen Rayburn and Denise G. Crowley and Richard O. Hynes},  journal={Cell},  year={1998},  volume={95},  pages={507-519},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:13076974}}

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