FIGURE 1. Parallels in vessel and nerve patterning.
From the following article:
Common mechanisms of nerve and blood vessel wiring
Peter Carmeliet and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Nature 436, 193-200 (14 July 2005)
doi: 10.1038/nature03875
a, b, Drawing by the Belgian anatomist Andreas Vesalius101, highlighting the similarities in the arborization of the vascular and nervous networks. c, Vessels (red) and nerves (green) track together towards their targets (reproduced with permission from ref. 9).