Amino acid depletion modulates vascular endothelial growth factor production during the life span of human vascular smooth muscle cells

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 359-364

  Earle, Kenneth A ^a   Pancholi, Sunil ^a   Vernon, Paul ^a   Yudkin, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CYSTEINE; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; VASCULOTROPIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL VEIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AMINO ACIDS; APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; UMBILICAL VEINS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031873750     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4652(199808)176:2<359::AID-JCP14>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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