Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in vascular development

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-10

  Merenmies, Jussi ^a,b   Parada, Luis F ^a   Henkemeyer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; LYMPHOKINES; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TIE-2; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TIE; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031014642     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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