VEGFR-2 (KDR/Flk-1)

Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 227-232

  Lenton, K ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIMETHYL 5 (2 OXO 1H INDOL 3 YLMETHYLENE) 3 PYRROLEPROPIONIC ACID; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; SEMAXANIB; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; ANTIBODY; LIGAND; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; LIGAND BINDING; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETINA CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 0036663446     PISSN: 0393974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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