Angiogenic and angiostatic factors in systemic sclerosis: increased levels of vascular endothelial growth factor are a feature of the earliest disease stages and are associated with the absence of fingertip ulcers

Arthritis research

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2002, Pages R11-

  Distler, Oliver ^a   Del Rosso, Angela ^a   Giacomelli, Roberto ^a   Cipriani, Paola ^a   Conforti, Maria L ^a   Guiducci, Serena ^a   Gay, Renate E ^a   Michel, Beat A ^a   Brühlmann, Pius ^a   Müller Ladner, Ulf ^a   Gay, Steffen ^a   Matucci Cerinic, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; AUTOANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; ENDOSTATIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; LYMPHOKINE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; SCL 70 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSCOPY; BLOOD; CAPILLARY; COMPLICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FINGER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAIL; PATHOLOGY; SKIN ULCER; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; AUTOANTIGENS; CAPILLARIES; COLLAGEN; ENDOSTATINS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FINGERS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN ULCER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 34247564964     PISSN: 14659905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar596     Document Type: Article

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