A novel role for relaxin-2 in the pathogenesis of primary varicosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Adams, Julia ^a   Schott, Sarah ^b   Bern, Arno ^c   Renz, Matthias ^a   Ikenberg, Kristian ^d   Garbe, Claus ^a   Busch, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Practice Clinic of Phlebology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELAXIN; RXFP1 PROTEIN; RXFP2 PROTEIN; SERELAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VARICOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL NUCLEUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RELAXIN; SAPHENOUS VEIN; UTERUS; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS VALVES;

EID: 84862700947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039021     Document Type: Article

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