Increased expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and capillary density in hearts of spontaneously hypertensive rats

Microcirculation

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 689-697

  Gu, Jian Wei ^a   Fortepiani, Lourdes A ^a   Reckelhoff, Jane F ^a   Adair, Thomas H ^a   Wang, Julie ^a   Hall, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Capillary; Hypertension; Myocardial hypertrophy; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL COMPUTER; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FROZEN SECTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CAPILLARY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 10944254151     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10739680490517749     Document Type: Article

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