Pericytes in diabetes-associated vascular disease

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1643-1650

  Warmke, Nele ^a   Griffin, Kathryn J ^a   Cubbon, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Diabetes; Endothelial; Pericyte; Vascular

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASOCONSTRICTION; CYTOLOGY; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MICROVASCULATURE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MICROVESSELS; PERICYTES;

EID: 84994323119     PISSN: 10568727     EISSN: 1873460X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2016.08.005     Document Type: Review

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