“…Mounting evidence shows that endothelial cells mainly express integrin‐α3β1 (Kikkawa et al ., ; Fujiwara et al ., ; Carlson et al ., ; Lei et al ., ; Di Russo et al ., ), ‐α6β1 (Kikkawa et al ., ; Fujiwara et al ., ; Carlson et al ., ; Lei et al ., ; Di Russo et al ., ) and ‐α6β4 (Kikkawa et al ., ) under normal conditions, although integrin‐α2 expression is also reported (Paulus et al ., ). Under pathological conditions, however, not only are the expression levels of these integrins altered, new integrin heterodimers, including αv‐integrins, are induced in endothelial cells (Friedlander et al ., ; Okada et al ., ; Abumiya et al ., ; Milner et al ., ).…”