Detection of gene expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and flk-1 in the renal glomeruli of the normal rat kidney using the laser microdissection system

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 442, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-162

  Inoue, Kaoru ^a   Sakurada, Yosuke ^a   Murakami, Masaru ^a   Shirota, Mariko ^b   Shirota, Kinji ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HATANO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flk 1; Glomeruli; Laser; Microdissection; VEGF

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY DISEASE; LASER; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037296582     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-002-0719-5     Document Type: Article

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