Progress in research into systemic sclerosis

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9434, 2004, Pages 561-562

  Kahaleh, Bashar ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; ENDOTHELIN 1; GROWTH FACTOR; INTEGRIN RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE;

ACIDOSIS; ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOCYTE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; UPREGULATION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 4143076185     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16864-5     Document Type: Note

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