Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Mediates Hypoxic Stimulated Embryonic Bladder Growth in Organ Culture

Journal of Urology

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1552-1557

  Burgu, Berk ^a   Medina Ortiz, Wanda E ^a   Pitera, Jolanta E ^a   Woolf, Adrian S ^a   Wilcox, Duncan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anoxia; bladder; embryology; muscle; smooth; vascular endothelial growth factor A

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; PIMONIDAZOLE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER GROWTH; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; ENDOTHELIUM; EXPLANT; FETUS; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; ORGAN GROWTH; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; CELL HYPOXIA; MICE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; URINARY BLADDER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 33947401943     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.12.011     Document Type: Article

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