From the Contents: - 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