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Fibroblast growth factor 2 control of vascular tone.
Nature medicine - 1 Feb 1998
Zhou M, Sutliff R L, Paul R J, Lorenz J N, Hoying J B, Haudenschild C C, Yin M, Coffin J D, Kong L, Kranias E G, Luo W, Boivin G P, Duffy J J, Pawlowski S A, Doetschman T
Abstract excerpt
Vascular tone control is essential in blood pressure regulation, shock, ischemia-reperfusion, inflammation, vessel injury/repair, wound healing, temperature regulation, digestion, exercise physiology, and metabolism. Here we show that a well-known growth factor, FGF2, long thought to be involved in many developmental and homeostatic processes, including growth of the tissue layers of vessel walls, functions in...
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