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Nature Medicine  9, 166 - 168 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0203-166

Splitting vessels: Keeping lymph apart from blood

Shahin Rafii1 & Mihaela Skobe2

1  Cornell University Medical College New York, New York, USA

2  Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York, USA

Correspondence should be addressed to Shahin Rafii srafii@med.cornell.edu or Mihaela Skobe mihaela.skobe@mssm.edu
Mixing lymph and blood in the vascular system can have dramatic effects on health, but how these two systems remain separate has been unclear. Now, it seems that two signaling molecules expressed mainly in hematopoietic cells segregate lymphatic and blood vessels during development and tissue revascularization.

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