Growth arrest-specific gene 6 (gas6) and vascular hemostasis

Advances in Nutrition

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 196-203

  Laurance, Sandrine ^a   Lemarié, Catherine A ^a   Blostein, Mark D ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC PROTEIN 6; GROWTH ARREST-SPECIFIC PROTEIN 6; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTERY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; VEIN;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; NEOPLASMS; THROMBOSIS; VEINS;

EID: 84866266426     PISSN: 21618313     EISSN: 21565376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/an.111.001826     Document Type: Review

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