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Prolactins Are Natural Inhibitors of Angiogenesis in the Retina

DOI

77

Citations

34

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2005

Year

Jorge Aranda, José Carlos Rivera, Michael C. Jeziorski, Juan R. Riesgo‐Escovar, Gabriel Miranda Nava, Ferna ́ndo Lo ́pez-Barrera, Hugo Quiro ́z-Mercado, Peter Berger, Gonzalo Martı́nez de la Escalera, Carmen Clapp
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Abstract

These results demonstrate that PRL is synthesized and cleaved to antiangiogenic 16K-PRL by retinal tissue and that these molecules play a key role in preventing angiogenesis in the healthy retina.

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