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Acknowledgments

RW is supported by grants from the German Research Foundation (SFB/TRR57, P13/Q3) and a grant from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research within the Faculty of Medicine at the RWTH Aachen University (IZKF Aachen, Project E7-6). The authors are grateful to Sabine Weiskirchen for preparing line drawings, Dr. J. MacDonald (Department of Radiology, Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA) and Dr. U. Geisthoff (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany) for providing photographs. In addition, the authors would like to thank the colleagues Prof. Frank Gaillard, Dr. Andrew Dixon, and Dr. Nasir Siddiqui that deposited radiology images in the Radiopaedia.org resource and allowed us to use them in our work.

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Meurer, S.K., Weiskirchen, R. (2016). ENG. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6438-9_101593-1

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