An endothelial-cell-enriched primary culture system to study vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF A) expression in a teleost, the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-46

  Huang, Yung Sen ^a   Huang, Wen Lian ^a   Lin, Wei Fan ^a   Chen, Ming Chyuan ^b   Jeng, Shan Ru ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

bFGF; Capillary endothelial cell; Eel; Fish; Hypoxia; Nitric oxide; Rete mirabile; Sex steroid; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; COBALT; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE;

ANGUILLA JAPONICA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747423701     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.04.027     Document Type: Article

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