Connective tissue growth factor: Friend or foe?

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1483-1489

  Oemar, Barry S ^a,b   Lüscher, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Development; Fibrosis gene expression; Gene cloning

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR;

ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030886301     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.17.8.1483     Document Type: Short Survey

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