Do kidney tubules serve an angiogenic soup?

Kidney International

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 862-863

  Woolf, Adrian S ^a,b  

^a University College London ^*

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Kidney; Smad; TGF ; Tubule; VEGF

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANGIOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UPREGULATION;

EID: 3242769146     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00821.x     Document Type: Editorial

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