Telomerase-based immortalization modifies the angiogenic/inflammatory responses of human coronary artery endothelial cells

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 236, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 692-700

  Baumer, Yvonne ^a,b   Scholz, Beate ^a   Ivanov, Svetlana ^a   Schlosshauer, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial cells; hTERT; Immortalization; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; TELOMERASE;

EID: 79958833651     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2011.010300     Document Type: Article

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