Skeletal muscle regeneration may be enhanced by overexpression of aquaporin 1 in intramuscular capillary endothelial cells

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 856-859

  Wakayama, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 1;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; CAPILLARIES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; REGENERATION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33846356987     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.07.056     Document Type: Article

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