Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in the human retina and in nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1453-1462

  Gerhardinger, Chiara ^a   Brown, Lawrence F ^b   Roy, Sayon ^a   Mizutani, Masakazu ^a   Zucker, Charles L ^a   Lorenzi, Mara ^a  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TISSUE LEVEL;

AGED; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031799124     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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