Circulating endothelial cells: Life, death, detachment and repair of the endothelial cell layer

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1728-1730

  Woywodt, Alexander ^a   Bahlmann, Ferdinand H ^a   De Groot, Kirsten ^a   Haller, Hermann ^a   Haubitz, Marion ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; FIBRONECTIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INTEGRIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; VITRONECTIN;

BLOOD SMEAR; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHIMERA; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TISSUE REPAIR; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0036797690     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.10.1728     Document Type: Editorial

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