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Arteriogenesis (collateral artery growth)
Vascular endothelial growth factor
Monocytes
Integrins
Cell adhesion molecules.
Constitutive expression
Permeability factor
Adhesion molecules
Receptor flt-1
Cell-adhesion
Gene-transfer
Up-regulation
Icam-1 cd54
In-vivo
Mechanisms.
Cell & Developmental Biology in Current Contents(R)/Life Sciences.
Abstract:
Monocytes play an important role in collateral vessel formation (arteriogenesis) by attaching to activated endothelium and by invading the walls of innate collateral vessels where they produce growth factors. Previous studies have demonstrated that this