Cartilage to bone - Angiogenesis leads the way

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 617-618

  Harper, Jay ^a   Klagsbrun, Michael ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE GROWTH; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; GROWTH PLATE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CARTILAGE; CHONDROCYTES; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0033059666     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/9460     Document Type: Short Survey

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