Vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor (VEGF/VPF)in normal and atherosclerotic human arteries

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1673-1685

  Couffinhal, Thierry ^a   Kearney, Marianne ^a   Witzenbichler, Bernhard ^a   Chen, Dongfen ^a   Murohara, Toyoaki ^a   Losordo, Douglas W ^a   Symes, James ^a   Isner, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MAMMARY ARTERIES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STAINING AND LABELING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0030938919     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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