Vasculature

Coagulation factor III (tissue factor) is required for vascularization in zebrafish embryos

R. F. Zhou, Liu, Y., Wang, Y. X., Mo, W., and Yu, M., Coagulation factor III (tissue factor) is required for vascularization in zebrafish embryos, vol. 10, pp. 4147-4157, 2011.

Tissue factor (coagulation factor III) is a cell surface receptor for coagulation factor VII/VIIa; it was initially recognized as an initiator of the extrinsic coagulation pathway. Recently, the zebrafish tissue factor gene (TF) has been cloned. Paralogs encode coagulation factors IIIa and IIIb; both show remarkable sequence identity to the human and mouse coagulation factor III gene.

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