title: Adrenomedullin in lymphangiogenesis: from development to disease.
abstract: Over the past decade, we have begun to appreciate that the lymphatic vascular system does more than simply return plasma back into the circulatory system and, in fact, contributes to a wide variety of normal and disease states. For this reason, much research has been devoted to understanding how lymphatic vessels form and function, with a particular interest in which molecules contribute to lymphatic vessel growth and maintenance. In the following review, we focus on a potent lymphangiogenic factor, adrenomedullin, and its known roles in lymphangiogenesis, lymphatic function, and human lymphatic disease. As one of the first, pharmacologically tractable G protein-coupled receptor pathways characterized in lymphatic endothelial cells, the continued study of adrenomedullin effects on the lymphatic system may open new avenues for the modulation of lymphatic growth and function in a variety of lymphatic-related diseases that currently have few treatments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB # 7545, 6312B MBRB, 111 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
authors.forename: Klara R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: Kathleen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Caron
mesh_terms: D053607:Adrenomedullin / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D042583:Lymphangiogenesis / Q000502:physiology*; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008208:Lymphatic System / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D058265:Receptors, Adrenomedullin / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D058265:Receptors, Adrenomedullin; D053607:Adrenomedullin