The neurovascular link in health and disease: an update

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 439-451

  Segura, Inmaculada ^a,b   De Smet, Frederik ^a,b   Hohensinner, Philipp J ^a,b   Almodovar, Carmen Ruiz de ^a,b   Carmeliet, Peter ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; NETRIN; NITRIC OXIDE; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STROKE;

ANIMALS; HEALTH; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 70350018469     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2009.08.005     Document Type: Review

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