Suppression by tranilast of fetal myosin heavy chains and intimal hyperplasia in rabbits

Current Therapeutic Research - Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 764-772

  Ohkawa, Hiroshi ^a   Ito, Masafumi ^b   Shigeno, Katsuro ^a   Gupta, Prem Chand ^a   Matsushita, Masahiro ^a   Nishikimi, Naomichi ^a   Sakurai, Tsunehisa ^a   Nimura, Yuji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon injury; Intimal hyperplasia; Myosin heavy chain; Tranilast; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRANILAST;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA INJURY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; FETUS CELL; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RESTENOSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0030719388     PISSN: 0011393X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-393X(97)80109-9     Document Type: Article

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