Vascular Patterning Shapes Intramembranous Ossification via the HIF1α–VEGF Axis

Researchers showed that the Mediator complex protein Med23 in endothelial cells controls cranial bone formation through the HIF1α–VEGF pathway; mice lacking this protein in blood vessel cells developed facial bone defects that were reversed by blocking HIF1α and supplementing VEGF.

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