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Werner Risau was affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany during their scientific career. The association with this institution indicates involvement with a significant research organization known for fundamental contributions to various scientific disciplines.

There are no records of recent papers, frequent co-authors, or commonly used publication venues available for Werner Risau. Additionally, information on book publications as well as specific main fields, subfields, and research topics was not provided.

Werner Risau was noted as deceased. This profile reflects their career and contributions in the past tense following the available data.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of angiogenesis

    Werner Risau

  • Abnormal blood vessel development and lethality in embryos lacking a single VEGF allele

    Peter Carmeliet;Valérie Ferreira;Georg Breier;Saskia Pollefeyt

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor is a potential tumour angiogenesis factor in human gliomas in vivo.

    Karl H. Plate;Georg Breier;Herbert A. Weich;Werner Risau

  • High affinity VEGF binding and developmental expression suggest Flk-1 as a major regulator of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.

    Birgit Millauer;Susanne Wizigmann-Voos;Harald Schnürch;Ricardo Martinez

  • Distinct roles of the receptor tyrosine kinases Tie-1 and Tie-2 in blood vessel formation

    Thomas N. Sato;Yuzuru Tozawa;Urban Deutsch;Karen Wolburg-Buchholz

  • Glioblastoma growth inhibited in vivo by a dominant-negative Flk-1 mutant

    Millauer B;Shawver Lk;Plate Kh;Risau W

  • Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor during embryonic angiogenesis and endothelial cell differentiation

    G. Breier;U. Albrecht;S. Sterrer;W. Risau

  • Roles of ephrinB ligands and EphB receptors in cardiovascular development: demarcation of arterial/venous domains, vascular morphogenesis, and sprouting angiogenesis

    Ralf H. Adams;George A. Wilkinson;Cornelia Weiss;Francesca Diella

  • The vascular endothelial growth factor receptor Flt-1 mediates biological activities. Implications for a functional role of placenta growth factor in monocyte activation and chemotaxis.

    Matthias Clauss;Herbert Weich;Georg Breier;Ulrike Knies

  • Tumor necrosis factor type alpha, a potent inhibitor of endothelial cell growth in vitro, is angiogenic in vivo.

    Marijke Frater-Schroder;Werner Risau;Rupert Hallmann;Peter Gautschi

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor induces VE-cadherin tyrosine phosphorylation in endothelial cells

    Sybille Esser;Maria Grazia Lampugnani;Monica Corada;Elisabetta Dejana

  • Vasculogenesis and angiogenesis in embryonic-stem-cell-derived embryoid bodies

    W. Risau;H. Sariola;H.G. Zerwes;J. Sasse

  • Identification of angiogenic activity and the cloning and expression of platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor.

    Fuyuki Ishikawa;Kohei Miyazono;Kohei Miyazono;Ulf Hellman;Hannes Drexler

  • HYPOXIA-INDUCED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR EXPRESSION PRECEDES NEOVASCULARIZATION AFTER CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA

    Hugo J.H. Marti;Myriam Bernaudin;Anita Bellail;Heike Schoch

  • Role of tissue factor in embryonic blood vessel development

    Peter Carmeliet;N Mackman;Lieve Moons;T Luther

  • Differentiation of endothelium.

    Werner Risau

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor induces endothelial fenestrations in vitro.

    Sybille Esser;Karen Wolburg;Hartwig Wolburg;Georg Breier

  • Hypoxia-induced Transcriptional Activation and Increased mRNA Stability of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in C6 Glioma Cells

    Eiji Ikeda;Marc G. Achen;Georg Breier;Werner Risau

  • Development of the blood-brain barrier.

    Werner Risau;Hartwig Wolburg

  • Uniform vascular-endothelial-cell-specific gene expression in both embryonic and adult transgenic mice.

    Thorsten M. Schlaeger;Sona Bartunkova;Joel A. Lawitts;Gunnar Teichmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl H. Plate
Karl H. Plate Goethe University Frankfurt
Urban Deutsch
Urban Deutsch University of Bern
Britta Engelhardt
Britta Engelhardt University of Bern
Matthias Clauss
Matthias Clauss Indiana University
Hartwig Wolburg
Hartwig Wolburg University of Tübingen
Erwin F. Wagner
Erwin F. Wagner Medical University of Vienna
Andras Nagy
Andras Nagy Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala University of Eastern Finland
Marc G. Achen
Marc G. Achen St Vincents Institute of Medical Research

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