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Positron emission tomography imaging of poststroke angiogenesis.

Cai W, Guzman R, Hsu AR, Wang H, Chen K, Sun G, Gera A, Choi R, Bliss T, He L, Li ZB, Maag AL, Hori N, Zhao H, Moseley M, Steinberg GK, Chen X. Stroke. 2009; 40 (1): 270-7

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and VEGF receptors (VEGFRs) play important roles during neurovascular repair after stroke. In this study, we imaged VEGFR expression with positron emission tomography (PET) to noninvasively analyze poststroke angiogenesis.

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