Inhibition of neointimal cell bcl-x expression induces apoptosis and regression of vascular disease

Nature Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 222-227

  Pollman, Matthew J ^a   Hall, Jennifer L ^b   Mann, Michael J ^b   Zhang, Lunan ^b   Gibbons, Gary H ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTIMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RABBITS; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0031931014     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0298-222     Document Type: Article

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