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Remodeling of the adventitia during coronary arteriogenesis.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 Jan 2003
Cai Wei-Jun, Koltai Sophie, Kocsis Elisabeth, Scholz Dimitri, Kostin Sawa, Luo Xuegang, Schaper Wolfgang, Schaper Jutta
Abstract excerpt
We studied the role of the adventitia in adaptive arteriogenesis during the phase of active growth of coronary collateral vessels (CV) induced by chronic occlusion of the left circumflex coronary artery in canine hearts. We used electron microscopy and immunoconfocal (IF) labeling for bFGF, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2, MMP-9, tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), its inhibitor (PAI-1), fibronectin (FN),...
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