Angiopoietin-2 deficiency decelerates age-dependent vascular changes in the mouse retina

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 129-136

  Feng, Yuxi ^a   Pfister, Frederick ^a   Schreiter, Kay ^b   Wang, Yumei ^a   Stock, Oliver ^a   Vom Hagen, Franziska ^a   Wolburg, Hartwig ^c   Hoffmann, Sigrid ^a   Deutsch, Urban ^d   Hammes, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b DeveloGen AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Age; Angiopoietin; Retina; Vascular regression; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 2; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; VASCULOTROPIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINA CAPILLARY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 38349136263     PISSN: 10158987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113755     Document Type: Article

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