Preface by Robert J. Tomanek * Werner Risau 1953-1998 by Georg Breier and Ingo Flamme * The Development of Blood Vessels: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms by Peter Carmeliet * The Role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors and their Receptors during Embryonic Vascular Development by Ingo Flamme and Georg Breier * The Ties that Bind: Emerging Concepts About the Structure and Function of Angiopoietins and their Receptors in Angiogenesis by Chitra Suri and George D. Yancopoulos * Extracellular Matrix in the Regulation of Angiogenesis by Jingsong Xu and Peter Brooks * The Role of Cell Adhesion Receptors in Vascular Development: An Overview by Paul Robson, Susan Pichla, Bin Zhou, H. Scott Baldwin * Development and Differentiation of Vascular Smooth Muscle by Mark W. Majesky, Xiu-Rong Dong, Po-Tsan Ku * Vascular Development of the Heart by Robert J. Tomanek, Xinping Yue, Wei Zheng * Vascular Development of Brain and Spinal Cord by Haymo Kurz and Bodo Christ * Vascular Development of the Kidney by R. Ariel Gomez, Maria L.S. Sequeira Lopez * Vascular Development of the Lung by Daphne E. deMello, Lynne M. Reid * Vascularization of the Placenta by Ronald J. Torry, Joanna Schwartz, Donald S. Torry * Index