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Adenosine promotes wound healing and mediates angiogenesis in response to tissue injury via occupancy of A(2A) receptors.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Jun 2002
Montesinos M Carmen, Desai Avani, Chen Jiang-Fan, Yee Herman, Schwarzschild Michael A, Fink J Stephen, Cronstein Bruce N
Abstract excerpt
Recent evidence indicates that topical application of adenosine A(2A) receptor agonists, unlike growth factors, increases the rate at which wounds close in normal animals and promotes wound healing in diabetic animals as well as growth factors, yet neither the specific adenosine receptor involved...
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