Nicotine potentiates vascular endothelial growth factor expression in balloon-injured rabbit aortas

Growth Factors

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 284-292

  Zhen, Yao ^a   Ruixing, Yin ^b   Qi, Bi ^b   Jinzhen, Wu ^b  

^a HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Expression; Nicotine; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; HEXAMETHONIUM; NICOTINE; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA INJURY; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ILIAC ARTERY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RABBIT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BALLOON DILATATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NICOTINE; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 52649145916     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: 10292292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08977190802292640     Document Type: Article

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