Reduced vascular endothelial growth factor correlates with alveolar epithelial damage after experimental ischemia and reperfusion

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 967-978

  Fehrenbach, Antonia ^a,d   Pufe, Thomas ^b   Wittwer, Thorsten ^c   Nagib, Ragi ^c   Dreyer, Niels ^a   Pech, Thomas ^c   Petersen, Wolf ^b   Fehrenbach, Heinz ^d   Wahlers, Thorsten ^c   Richter, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CELL VOLUME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECORDING; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOLOGY; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PERFUSION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 0041736436     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(02)01157-9     Document Type: Article

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