Treatment of acute limb ischemia by intramuscular injection of vascular endothelial growth factor gene

Circulation

Volumn 96, Issue 9 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Tsurumi, Yukio ^a   Kearney, Marianne ^a   Chen, Dongfen ^a   Silver, Marcy ^a   Takeshita, Satoshi ^a   Yang, Jihong ^a   Symes, James F ^a   Isner, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Collateral; Gene therapy; Skeletal muscle; Vessel

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EXTREMITIES; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; ISCHEMIA; LYMPHOKINES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RABBITS; TRANSFECTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0343632352     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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