Age-dependent VEGF expression and intraneural neovascularization during regeneration of peripheral nerves

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1361-1368

  Pola, Roberto ^a,b   Aprahamian, Tamar R ^a   Bosch Marcé, Marta ^a   Curry, Cynthia ^a   Gaetani, Eleonora ^b   Flex, Andrea ^b   Smith, Roy C ^a   Isner, Jeffrey M ^a   Losordo, Douglas W ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Angiogenesis; Nerve regeneration; Vasa nervorum; VEGF

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

AGING; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENESCENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 4644249816     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2004.02.028     Document Type: Article

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