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some become like arteries,
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and they start to connect to the vascular system of the mouse.
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If you wait long enough
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and you look by electron microscopy inside these gels,
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you will find many, many blood vessels that look like this.
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This is a cross-section in this Panel B below.
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You can see the endothelial cells have formed into a capillary,
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it's a tube.
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Not only is it a tube
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but here's a mouse blood cell inside of it.
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It's a tube that's now carrying mouse blood through it.
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You've created new pathways for blood to flow.