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Specific repression of the preproendothelin-1 gene in intracranial arteriovenous malformations.
Journal of neurosurgery - 1 Jan 1997
Rhoten R L, Comair Y G, Shedid D, Chyatte D, Simonson M S
Abstract excerpt
Cerebrovascular arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) display abnormal vascular development and dysautoregulation of blood flow. Genetic mechanisms that contribute to the pathogenesis and phenotype of cerebral AVMs are unknown. As a first step in understanding the pathophysiology of AVMs, the authors investigated the hypothesis that endothelial dysfunction-specifically, deregulation of endothelin-1 (ET-1)...
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