Selected Publications

Xiong, J.-W., Leahy, A., Lee, H.-H., and Stuhlmann, H. (1999).   Vezf1: a Zn finger transcription factor restricted to endothelial cells and their precursors. Dev. Biol. 206: 123-141. 

Leahy, A., Xiong, J.-W., Kuhnert, F., and Stuhlmann, H. (1999). Use of developmental marker genes to define temporal and spatial patterns of differentiation during embryoid body formation. J. Exp. Zool. 284, 67-81. 

Xiong, J.-W., Leahy, A., and Stuhlmann, H. (1999). Promoter-trap insertion into a novel mammalian septin gene expressed during neuronal development. Mech. Dev. 86: 183-191. 

Gutstein, D.E., Morley, G.E., Tamaddon, H., Vaidya, D., Schneider, M.D., Chen, J., Chien, K.R., Stuhlmann, H., and Fishman, G.I. (2001). Genetic manipulation of connexin43 expression in the heart: establishing a role for gap junction remodeling in arrhythmogenesis and ventricular dysfunction. Circ. Res. 88: 333-339. 

Leahy, A., Xiong, J.-W., Campagnolo, L., Aufiero, B., Sun, X., Fallon, J.T., Taubman, M.B., and Stuhlmann, H. (2001). Vezf1 is a novel marker for endothelial cells and is up-regulated in angiogenesis and arterial injury. Am. J. Path., under revision. 

Sun, X., Xiong, Lemons, D., Kuhnert. F., J.-W., English, F., Licht, J., and Stuhlmann, H. (2001).  VEZF is an endothelial transcriptional transactivator that displays sequence-specific DNA binding to the IL-3, Flk-1, and Flt-1 promoters.  Submitted. 

Kuhnert, F., Xiong, J.-W., Campagnolo, L., Lemons, D., Gardner, H., and Stuhlmann, H. (2001).  Loss of  Vezf1results in angiogenesis defects in homozygous and heterozygous mutant embryos.  In preparation. 

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