TY  - JOUR
TI  - Spatial distribution of blood vessels in the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane
AU  - Guidolin, Diego
AU  - Tamma, Roberto
AU  - Annese, Tiziana
AU  - Tortorella, Cinzia
AU  - Ribatti, Domenico
T2  - The International Journal of Developmental Biology
AB  - The chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) is a useful tool with which to study both angiogenesis and anti-angiogenesis in vivo. CAM vascular growth pattern - including the way through vessels fills the available space - can be quite easily described and quantified using image analysis procedures, in order to evaluate different parameters, including fractal dimension, lacunarity and non-fractal order-disorder parameters. In the present study, we further expanded this morphological description, by estimating an index expressing the degree of symmetry characterizing the CAM vascular tree structure in the course of the embryonic development. Moreover, a uniformity index was estimated quantitatively to characterize the space-filling features of the vessels, i.e. the degree of spatial uniformity of their distribution in the tissue.
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.1387/ijdb.210151dr
VL  - 65
IS  - 10-11-12
SP  - 545
EP  - 549
J2  - Int. J. Dev. Biol.
LA  - en
SN  - 0214-6282
SN  - 1696-3547
UR  - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/210151dr
Y2  - 2024/11/21/13:29:21
ER  -