Table 3.
Transgenic zebrafish lines generated for the study and visualization of the vascular system.
| Line | Gene | Expression | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tg(5xUAS:cdh5-EGFP) | VE-cadherin | Pan- endothelial | Lenard et al., 2013 |
| Tg(-7.8gata4:GFP)ae3 | Transcription factor GATA-4 | Endocardial and myocardial cells | Heicklen-Klein and Evans, 2004 |
| Tg(dll4:EGFP) | Notch ligand | Endothelial cells | Sacilotto et al., 2013 |
| Tg(efnb2a:EGFP) | Ligand of Eph- receptor | Artery | Swift et al., 2014 |
| Tg(fli:eGFP)y1 | Transcription factor Fli-1 | Endothelial cells, cytoplasmic | Lawson and Weinstein, 2002a |
| Tg(fli1:neGFP)y7 | Transcription factor Fli-1 | Endothelial cells, nuclear | Roman et al., 2002 |
| Tg(flt4:YFP) | Vegfr3 | Pan-endothelial | Hogan et al., 2010 |
| Tg(gata1:dsRed)sd2 | Transcription factor GATA-1 | Blood cells | Traver et al., 2003 |
| Tg(gata1:GFP) | Transcription factor GATA-1 | Erythroid lineage | Long et al., 1997 |
| Tg(gata2:eGFP) | Transcription factor GATA-2 | Blood cells | Traver et al., 2003 |
| Tg(hsp70l:canotch3-EGFP) | Notch3 intracellular domain | Perivascular | Wang et al., 2014 |
| Tg(kdr.eGFP)s843 | Vegfr2/flk1/kdr/Vegfr4 | Angioblast/endothelial precursors | Jin et al., 2006 |
| Tg(kdr:G-RCFP) | Vegfr2/flk1/kdr | Angioblast/endothelial precursors | Cross et al., 2003 |
| Tg(kdr:RFP)la4 | Vegfr2/flk1/kdr | Angioblast/endothelial precursors | Huang et al., 2005 |
| Tg(my17:eGFP) | Cardiac myosin light chain 2 | Myocardial cells | Ho et al., 2007 |
| Tg(nkx2.3:efnb2a,myl7:EGFP) | Ligand of Eph- receptor | Artery | Choe and Crump, 2015 |
| Tg(scl-α:DsRed) | Transcription factor Tal-1 | Endothelial cells (intermediate) | Zhen et al., 2013 |
| Tg(scl-β:d2eGFP) | Transcription factor Tal-1 | Endothelial cells (anterior-posterior) | Zhen et al., 2013 |
| Tg(Tie2:eGFP) | Tie-2 receptor tyrosine kinase | Endothelial cells | Motoike et al., 2000 |
| TgBAC(cdh5:Citrine) | VE-cadherin | Pan- endothelial | Bussmann and Schulte-Merker, 2011 |
| TgBAC(cdh5:GAL4FF) | VE-cadherin | Pan- endothelial | Bussmann et al., 2011 |
| TgBAC(dll4:GAL4FF) | Notch ligand | Endothelial cells | Hermkens et al., 2015 |
| TgBAC(flt4:Citrine) | Vegfr3 | Pan-endothelial | Gordon et al., 2013 |
| Tg(0.8flt1:RFP)hu5333 | Flt1 | Strong expression in arterial ISV | Bussmann et al., 2011 |