Vascular endothelial growth factors VEGF-B and VEGF-C

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-215

  Joukov, Vladimir ^a   Kaipainen, Arja ^a   Jeltsch, Michael ^a   Pajusola, Katri ^a   Olofsson, Birgitta ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Eriksson, Ulf ^b   Alitalo, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACENTAL GROWTH FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; HUMANS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR B; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C;

EID: 0030838253     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4652(199711)173:2<211::AID-JCP23>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Conference Paper

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