Heterogeneous Distribution of Thrombomodulin and von Willebrand Factor in Endothelial Cells in the Human Pulmonary Microvessels

Journal of Nippon Medical School

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 118-125

  Kawanami, Oichi ^a   Jin, Enjing ^a   Ghazizadeh, Mohammad ^a   Fujiwara, Masakazu ^a   Jiang, Li ^a   Nagashima, Mikio ^a   Shimizu, Hajime ^a   Takemura, Tamiko ^b   Ohaki, Yoshiharu ^c   Arai, Satoru ^c   Gomibuchi, Makoto ^c   Takeda, Kazuyo ^d   Yu, Zu Xi ^d   Ferrans, Victor J ^d  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Nippon Red Cross Hospital Center   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL CHIBA HOKUSOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; endothelial cells; pulmonary microvessel; thrombomodulin; von Willebrand factor

Indexed keywords

THROMBOMODULIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOMODULIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0034168286     PISSN: 13454676     EISSN: 13473409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1272/jnms.67.118     Document Type: Article

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