Anne M. Ryan

TL;DR: It is shown that VEGF-mediated capillary invasion is an essential signal that regulates growth plate morphogenesis and triggers cartilage remodeling and VEGf is anessential coordinator of chondrocyte death, chondROclast function, extracellular matrix remodeling, angiogenesis and bone formation in the growth plate.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that alpha-Syn is an essential presynaptic, activity-dependent negative regulator of DA neurotransmission is supported.

TL;DR: Findings support the role of SMO as a signalling component of the SHH–receptor complex and provide direct evidence that mutated SMO can function as an oncogene in BCCs.

TL;DR: It is shown that at postnatal day 0 (P0), GDNF-deficient mice have deficits in dorsal root ganglion, sympathetic and nodose neurons, but not in hindbrain noradrenergic or midbrain dopaminergic neurons, and GDNF is important for the development and/or survival of enteric, sympathetic, and sensory neurons and the renal system, but is not essential for catecholaminergic neuron in the central nervous system (CNS).

TL;DR: Endothelial cells isolated from the liver of mFlt(1-3)-IgG-treated neonates demonstrated an increased apoptotic index, indicating that VEGF is required not only for proliferation but also for survival of endothelial cells.