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Hypoxia induces angiogenic factors in brain microvascular endothelial cells.
Microvascular research - 1 Mar 2012
Luo J, Martinez J, Yin X, Sanchez A, Tripathy D, Grammas P
Abstract excerpt
Hypoxia is increasingly recognized as an important contributing factor to the development of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the periphery, hypoxia is a powerful regulator of angiogenesis. However, vascular endothelial cells are remarkably heterogeneous and little is known about how brain endothelial cells respond to hypoxic challenge. The objective of this study is to characterize the effect...
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