Figure 3
From: Vascular mimicry in cultured head and neck tumour cell lines
Showing the hypothesis of "vasculogenic mimicry" in head and neck cell lines. The upper part of the image shows vascular channel formation in a head and neck cell line. The lower part is a diagrammatic representation of a tumour lines blood vessel and its transition to a mosaic lined vessel (containing tumour and co-opted "angiogenic sprouts" from host endothelial cells) joining a conventional endothelial lined capillary of the systemic vasculature. This figure was adapted with permission and modified from: Folberg R, Hendrix MJ, Maniotis AJ. Vasculogenic mimicry and tumor angiogenesis. Am J Pathol. 2000 Feb;156(2):361-81.