| abstract |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for discriminating an artery from other blood vessels with high accuracy for blood vessels created from ES cells, bone marrow cells, etc., or blood vessels collected from a living body. In determining whether or not a test blood vessel is an artery, the presence or absence of expression of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 in the endothelial cells of the test blood vessel is detected, and when the chemokine receptor CXCR4 is expressed, the blood vessel Is determined to be an artery. [Selection figure] None |