Induction of angiogenesis in a mouse model using engineered transcription factors

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1427-1432

  Rebar, Edward J ^a   Huang, Yan ^b   Hickey, Reed ^b   Nath, Anjali K ^b   Meoli, David ^b   Nath, Sameer ^b   Chen, Bingliang ^a   Xu, Lei ^a   Liang, Yuxin ^a   Jamieson, Andrew C ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Spratt, S Kaye ^a   Case, Casey C ^a   Wolffe, Alan ^a   Giordano, Frank J ^b  

^a SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WOUND HEALING;

MURINAE;

EID: 0036912846     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1202-795     Document Type: Article

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