Platelet-derived growth factor CC - A clinically useful angiogenic factor at last?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1815-1816

  Dimmeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR C; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR CC; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR D; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LYMPHOKINES; MICE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; STEM CELLS;

EID: 17644364720     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr050670     Document Type: Article

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