New in Nature Comms: Rasouli et al. from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine show that pericytes are a critical source of organ-specific paracrine signals that regulate tissue morphogenesis during postnatal development. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #VascularBiology #Pericytes
Pericytes help to preserve vascular integrity, but little is known about their role in organ growth and development. Here, the authors report that pericyte-derived HGF and BDNF are required for lung,…