How to create the vascular tree? (Latest) help from the zebrafish.

The cardiovascular system provides oxygen, nutrients and hormones to organs, it directs traffic of metabolites and it maintains tissue homeostasis. It is one of the first organs assembled during vertebrate development and it is essential to life from early stages to adult. For these reasons, the process of vessel formation has being studied for more than a century, but it is only in the late eighties that there has been an explosion of research in the field with the employment of various in vitro and in vivo model systems.