Connecting the cells: Vascular differentiation via homeobox genes and extracellular matrix in the distal lung

Circulation Research

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1406-1407

  Dettman, Robert W ^a   Steinhorn, Robin H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar capillary dysplasia; Extracellular matrix; Homeobox genes; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; TENASCIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; DYSPLASIA; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRX1 GENE; PRX2 GENE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LAMININ; LUNG; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTEOGLYCANS; TENASCIN;

EID: 2942670662     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000133228.54181.cd     Document Type: Editorial

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