Angiopoietin-1 protects the adult vasculature against plasma leakage

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 460-463

  Thurston, Gavin ^a   Rudge, John S ^b   Ioffe, Ella ^b   Zhou, Hao ^b   Ross, Leorah ^b   Croll, Susan D ^b   Glazer, Nicole ^a   Holash, Jocelyn ^b   McDonald, Donald M ^a   Yancopoulos, George D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADENOVIRUS; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANGIOPOIETIN-1; ANIMALS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; GENETIC VECTORS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SKIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034036689     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74725     Document Type: Article

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