cardiovascular system
• mutants exhibit less neovascularization in matrigel plug assays than wild-type mice
• mutant endothelial cells exhibit less in vitro tube formation and a decrease in migration in response to basic fibroblast growth factor
• decrease in vascular density and size of tumors arising from injected tumor cell lines, relative to controls
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growth/size/body
• 15% reduction in body weight relative to wild-type
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neoplasm
• mutants injected with melanoma and Lewis lung carcinoma cells show smaller tumor volumes, delayed growth and decreased vascular density in tumors than wild-type mice
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