Attacked from within, blood thins

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1082-1083

  Bahou, Wadie F ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; INHIBITOR PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 4; THROMBIN; THROMBIN RECEPTOR;

ANTICOAGULATION; BLOOD CLOTTING; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; PEPTIDES; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, THROMBIN; THROMBIN;

EID: 0036797715     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1002-1082     Document Type: Short Survey

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