secondary vascular system

Lymphatics as the origin of the fish secondary vascular sytem

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The Yaniv lab shows, that zebrafish anal fin blood vessels develop from lymphatics by transdifferentiation. What does this mean and why is the vascular biology community excited? Read our commentary: https://rdcu.be/cOjJ0

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