Splitting vessels: Keeping lymph apart from blood

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 166-168

  Rafii, Shahin ^a   Skobe, Mihaela ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN SLP 76; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HOMEOBOX; LYMPH; LYMPH VESSEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME PRECURSORS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MICE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

EID: 0037324422     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0203-166     Document Type: Short Survey

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