Table 1.

Known molecular markers of the arterial and venous endothelium

	Arterial endothelial cells	Venous endothelial cells
Mouse	ephrin-B21,2,3, neuropilin-14, connexin-404, Bmx5,6 Notch17, 37 and 47, Delta-like47,8, Jagged17 and 27	EphB41,2,3
Chick	ephrin-B29,10, neuropilin-19,11,	Neuropilin-211, Tie29,12,*
Zebrafish	Notch513,14, gridlock14,15, ephrin-B2a13,14,15	Flt413,14,15, EphB415
Xenopus		EphB416

¹Wang et al. (1998);

²Adams et al. (1999);

³Gerety et al. (1999);

⁴Mukouyama et al. (2002);

⁵Ekman et al. (1997);

⁶Rajantie et al. (2001);

⁷Villa et al. (2001);

⁸Shutter et al. (2000);

⁹Moyon et al. (2001a);

¹⁰Othman-Hassan et al. (2001);

¹¹Herzog et al. (2001);

¹²Moyon et al. (2001b);

¹³Lawson et al. (2001);

¹⁴Lawson et al. (2002);

¹⁵Zhong et al. (2001);

¹⁶Helbling et al. (2000)

^*Tie2 is also expressed in aorta (see text)