Vitreous levels of vascular endothelial growth factor are not influenced by its serum concentrations in diabetic retinopathy

Diabetologia

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1107-1109

  Burgos, R ^a,b   Simo R ^a   Audi L ^a   Mateo, C ^a   Mesa, J ^a   Garcia Ramirez M ^a   Carrascosa, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diabetic retinopathy; Growth factors; Neovascularization; Vascular endothelial growth factor; Vitreous

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIFFUSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETINA ISCHEMIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VITRECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0030778953     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050794     Document Type: Article

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