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Time course of endothelial cell proliferation and microvascular remodeling in chronic inflammation.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Jun 2001
Ezaki T, Baluk P, Thurston G, La Barbara A, Woo C, McDonald D M
Abstract excerpt
Angiogenesis and vascular remodeling are features of many chronic inflammatory diseases. When diseases evolve slowly, the accompanying changes in the microvasculature would seem to be similarly gradual. Here we report that the rate of endothelial cell proliferation and the size of blood vessels increases rapidly after the onset of an infection that leads to chronic inflammatory airway disease. In C3H mice...
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