Expression of VEGF splice variants 144/145 and 205/206 in adult male tissues

IUBMB Life

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 405-408

  Burchardt, Tatjana ^a   Burchardt, Martin ^a   Chen, Min Wei ^a   Buttyan, Ralph ^a   De La Taille, Alexandre ^a   Shabsigh, Ahmad ^a   Shabsigh, Ridwan ^a,b  

^a Coll Phys Surgs of Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

mRNA splice variants; VEGF isoforms

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032752346     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713803545     Document Type: Article

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