Vascular-specific growth factors and blood vessel formation

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6801, 2000, Pages 242-248

  Yancopoulos, George D ^a   Davis, Samuel ^a   Gale, Nicholas W ^a   Rudge, John S ^a   Wiegand, Stanley J ^a   Holash, Jocelyn ^a  

^a REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; EPHRIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANGIOPOIETIN-2; ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EPHRIN-B2; LYMPHOKINES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TIE; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0034648793     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35025215     Document Type: Review

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