Angiopoietin-2: Modulator of vascular permeability in acute lung injury?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 294-296

  Hashimoto, Tomoki ^a   Pittet, Jean Francois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENDOTOXIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MIGRATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SHORT SURVEY; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; DRUG EFFECT; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEPSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOPOIETIN-2; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SEPSIS;

EID: 33645347065     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030113     Document Type: Short Survey

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