Do stem cells cause aging-related intimal medial thickening?

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-40

  Stoehr, Robert ^a,b   Federici, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Stem cell; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; I KAPPA B; PLACENTAL GROWTH FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ADVENTITIA; AGING; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STEM CELL;

AGING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 84865400966     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.07.026     Document Type: Note

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