A novel assay of angiogenesis in the quail chorioallantoic membrane: stimulation by bFGF and inhibition by angiostatin according to fractal dimension and grid intersection

Microvascular Research
P Parsons-WingerterE H Sage

Abstract

In a novel assay of angiogenesis in the quail chorioallantoic membrane (CAM), we measured vascular pattern and angiogenic rate after homogeneous exposure of the entire vascular tree to recognized modulators of vessel growth. In comparison to phosphate-buffered saline (PBS)-treated controls, the vascular stimulator, basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF or FGF-2), increased the rate of angiogenesis by a maximum of 72%, whereas a recently discovered angiogenic inhibitor, angiostatin, decreased the rate of vascular growth by a maximum of 68%. The perturbants were applied in PBS to the CAM of 7-day-old embryos (E7) cultured in petri dishes, and the embryos were cultured further until fixation at E8 or E9. For morphometry of the quasi-two-dimensional CAM vasculature, digital images of arterial endpoints from the middle region of the CAM were acquired in grayscale at a magnification of 10x, binarized to black/white, and skeletonized. The pattern of vessel branching was assessed by measurement of the fractal dimension (Df), and vessel density (rhov), with the method of grid intersection. Correlations between these two statistical techniques were linear (r2 ranged from 0.967 to 0.985). For skeletonized images at E9, Df and rhov of bFGF-...Continue Reading

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