Vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor augments nitric oxide release from quiescent rabbit and human vascular endothelium

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1030-1037

  Van Der Zee, Rien ^a,b   Murohara, Toyoaki ^a   Luo, Zhengyu ^a   Zollmann, Frank ^a   Passeri, Jonathan ^a   Lekutat, Carsten ^a   Isner, Jeffrey M ^a,c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

endothelium; endothelium derived factors; nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLAROGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RABBIT; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0031041932     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.4.1030     Document Type: Article

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