Basic fibroblast growth factor overexpression in endothelial cells: An autocrine mechanism for angiogenesis and angioproliferative diseases

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-160

  Gualandris, Anna ^a   Rusnati, Marco ^a   Belleri, Mirella ^a   Nelli, Enrico Emanuele ^a   Bastaki, Maria ^a   Molinari Tosatti, Maria Pia ^a   Bonardi, Fabrizio ^a   Parolini, Silvia ^a   Albini, Adriana ^b   Morbidelli, Lucia ^c   Ziche, Marina ^c   Corallini, Alfredo ^d   Possati, Laura ^e   Vacca, Angelo ^f   Ribatti, Domenico ^f   Presta, Marco ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH STIMULATION; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RABBIT; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; AORTA; CELL SIZE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; CHICK EMBRYO; COLLAGEN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LAMININ; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OVUM; PROTEOGLYCANS; RABBITS; RETROVIRIDAE;

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