Shear stress responsive genes in the vessel walls of
the developing chicken embryo have a large impact on
the development of the vasculature. To investigate
the effect of altered blood flow on vessel formation,
blood velocity profiles have to be known close to the
vessel walls. However, the determination of the exact
vessel geometry is difficult, because the vessels are
very small (10 to 250 micrometres) and almost
transparent. This thesis investigates several
possibilities to stain the endothelium (the cell
layer at the inner boundary of a vessel) of chicken
embryo vasculature, using animals...