David T. Shima

VEGF guides angiogenic sprouting utilizing endothelial tip cell filopodia

Holger Gerhardt, Marcus Fruttiger, Christiana Ruhrberg et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 2003 · 2.9K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +17

Spatially restricted patterning cues provided by heparin-binding VEGF-A control blood vessel branching morphogenesis

Christiana Ruhrberg, Holger Gerhardt, Rose Watson et al. · Genes & Development · 2002 · 915 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +17

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A Is a Survival Factor for Retinal Neurons and a Critical Neuroprotectant during the Adaptive Response to Ischemic Injury

Kazuaki Nishijima, Yin‐Shan Ng, Lichun Zhong et al. · American Journal Of Pathology · 2007 · 712 citations · Full text

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Mutations in Dynein Link Motor Neuron Degeneration to Defects in Retrograde Transport

Majid Hafezparast, Rainer Klocke, Christiana Ruhrberg et al. · Science · 2003 · 688 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Neuroscience +17

Impaired myocardial angiogenesis and ischemic cardiomyopathy in mice lacking the vascular endothelial growth factor isoforms VEGF164 and VEGF188

Peter Carmeliet, Yin‐Shan Ng, Dieter Nuyens et al. · Nature Medicine · 1999 · 682 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Genetics +12