Human Muller cells express VEGF183, a novel spliced variant of vascular endothelial growth factor

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 752-759

  Jingjing, Liu ^a   Xue, Yaming ^a   Agarwal, Neeraj ^a   Roque, Rouel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; LYMPHOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A, HUMAN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUELLER CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOXIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GLIA; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RETINA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOXIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LYMPHOKINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROGLIA; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFECTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032587138     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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