Oxidative Stress and Increase of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Plasma of Patients with Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease

Thromb Haemost 2001; 85(02): 368
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1615706

Letters to the Editor

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Regina E. Roller

¹From the Department of Internal Medicine, Karl-Franzens University School of Medicine, Graz, Austria

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Wilfried Renner

¹From the Department of Internal Medicine, Karl-Franzens University School of Medicine, Graz, Austria

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Andreas Dorr

¹From the Department of Internal Medicine, Karl-Franzens University School of Medicine, Graz, Austria

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Ernst Pilger

¹From the Department of Internal Medicine, Karl-Franzens University School of Medicine, Graz, Austria

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Wolfgang J. Schnedl

¹From the Department of Internal Medicine, Karl-Franzens University School of Medicine, Graz, Austria

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