Possible new role of vascular endothelial growth factor-D during the acute phase of kawasaki disease

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1324-1325

  Hirono, Keiichi ^a,b   Ichida, Fukiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN B; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D; VASCULOTROPIN E; VASCULOTROPIN F; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANGIOGENESIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY LESION; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR D;

EID: 79957672952     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-11-0408     Document Type: Editorial

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