Food for starving hearts

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 519-520

  Simons, Michael ^a   Anthony Ware, J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 5; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SWINE;

EID: 19144368364     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0596-519     Document Type: Short Survey

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