Inhibitory effect of multiglycosidorum tripterygii on coronary arteriosclerosis after heart transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1446-1450

  Hachida, Mitsuhiro ^a   Zhang, Xi Long ^a   Lu, Hua ^a   Hoshi, Hironobu ^a   Koyanagi, Hitoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DNA REPLICATION; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MYOCARDIUM; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIPTERYGIUM;

EID: 0032526066     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199806150-00006     Document Type: Article

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