Endothelial cells in physiology and in the pathophysiology of vascular disorders.

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Douglas B. Cines · University of Pennsylvania

Eleanor S. Pollak

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THE ENDOTHELIUM has long been viewed as an inert cellophane-like membrane that lines the circulatory system with its primary essential function being the maintenance of vessel wall permeability. Shortly after the first description of circulating blood by William Harvey in 1628, the existence of a

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Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects Apelin-related biomedical research Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms

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Published in: PubMed

Volume 91, Issue 10, pp. 3527-61

DOI: 10.1182/blood.v91.10.3527

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