Wang began by searching for fluorescently labeled, Wnt-responsive cells ... Nusse's team discovered that endothelial cells lining the central vein, the blood vessel around which the stem cells ...

At that time, postdoctoral fellow Gan Zhao led a study that found knocking out a certain vein-specifying transcription factor ...

Proximal deep-vein thrombosis is diagnosed by compression ... Damage to the vessel wall prevents the endothelium from inhibiting coagulation and initiating local fibrinolysis.

Veins are composed on a cell lining called endothelium and smooth muscle which contracts and relaxes resulting in changes in diameter of the veins. These changes in diameter are regulated by ...