Chapter 7 The Aortic Ring Model of Angiogenesis

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 443, Issue , 2008, Pages 119-136

  Aplin, Alfred C ^a   Fogel, Eric ^b   Zorzi, Penelope ^a   Nicosia, Roberto F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN GEL; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; RNA; CD31 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN;

ANGIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL ASSAY; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REVIEW; RNA ISOLATION; VASCULAR RING; ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; AORTIC VALVE; COLLAGEN; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 52049089123     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)02007-7     Document Type: Review

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