Expression of urotensin-II in human coronary atherosclerosis

Peptides

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2464-2472

  Hassan, Ghada S ^a   Douglas, Stephen A ^b   Ohlstein, Eliot H ^b   Giaid, Adel ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary arteries; Immunohistochemistry; mRNA; Tissue

Indexed keywords

UROTENSIN II;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOAM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; UROTENSINS;

EID: 27944438077     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2005.05.028     Document Type: Article

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