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Endothelium: the main actor in the remodelling of the retinal microvasculature in diabetes

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Abbreviations

NO:

Nitric oxide

VEGF:

vascular endothelial growth factor

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Porta, M. Endothelium: the main actor in the remodelling of the retinal microvasculature in diabetes. Diabetologia 39, 739–744 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00418548

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