Differential immunolocalization of VEGF in rat and human adult lung, and in experimental rat lung fibrosis: Light, fluorescence, and electron microscopy

Anatomical Record

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-73

  Fehrenbach, Heinz ^a   Kasper, Michael ^a   Haase, Michael ^a   Schuh, Dieter ^a   Müller, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fibrosis; Immunocytochemistry; Lung; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BLEOMYCIN; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CLARA CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 2; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG FIBROSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SECRETORY GRANULE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BLEOMYCIN; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; LYMPHOKINES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032954450     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(19990101)254:1<61::AID-AR8>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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