Techniques and assays for the study of angiogenesis

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 239, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1476-1488

  Irvin, Michael W ^a   Zijlstra, Andries ^b,c   Wikswo, John P ^a,b,d   Pozzi, Ambra ^b,c,d,e  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Veterans Affairs Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

disease; Endothelial cells; growth factors; sprouting; tubulogenesis; vessels

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; DNA; GROWTH FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS ASSAY; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION ASSAY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MTT ASSAY; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPROUTING; TUBULE MORPHOGENESIS; TUBULOGENESIS; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING; ANGIOGENESIS; HUMAN; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATHOLOGY;

EID: 84910028628     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370214529386     Document Type: Article

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