Endothelin is a potent mitogen for rat vascular smooth muscle cells

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 78, Issue 2-3, 1989, Pages 225-228

  Hirata, Yukio ^a,b   Takagi, Yasuyuki ^b   Fukuda, Yuka ^b   Maruno, Fumiaki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA synthesis; Endothelin; Growth factor; Vascular smooth muscle cell

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDOTHELIN; GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; ETIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; ENDOTHELINS; IN VITRO; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NIFEDIPINE; PEPTIDES; RATS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0024318340     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9150(89)90227-X     Document Type: Article

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