Endogenous regulation of angiogenesis in the rat aorta model: Role of vascular endothelial growth factor

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1379-1386

  Nicosia, Roberto F ^a   Lin, Yuzhong J ^b   Hazelton, Darcie ^a   Qian, XiaoHua ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cascade Biologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC REGULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; AORTA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0030698296     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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