Cellular and molecular biology of vascular remodeling

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 94-100

  Cowan, Douglas B ^a   Langille, B Lowell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MICROVASCULATURE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 9344252212     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-199604000-00008     Document Type: Review

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