The Vascular Endothelium I
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Volume 176/I Editor-in-Chief K. Starke, Freiburg i. Br. Editorial Board G.V.R. Born, London S.P. Duckles, Irvine, CA M. Eichelbaum, Stuttgart D. Ganten, Berlin F. Hofmann, München W. Rosenthal, Berlin G. Rubanyi, San Diego, CA
The Vascular Endothelium I Contributors F. Antohe, J.D. Catravas, A. Chatterjee, P.A. D’Amore, A.P. Davenport, C. Dimitropoulou, K. Egan, G.A. FitzGerald, E.A. Higgs, W.M. Kuebler, J.J. Maguire, A.B. Malik, L. McCloud, R.D. Minshall, S. Moncada, A.R. Pries, M. Simionescu, A.M. Suburo, Q.-K. Tran, H. Watanabe, G. Yetik-Anacak Editors
Salvador Moncada and Annie Higgs
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Prof. Salvador Moncada FRCP FRS The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK E-mail: [email protected]
Ms. Annie Higgs The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK E-mail: [email protected]
With 42 Figures and 3 Tables
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Preface
It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of Springer to edit this book. My association with the vascular endothelium covers a large part of my scientific career and, as with any good long-standing relationship, it has had moments of great excitement and periods of laborious construction. It has sometimes been difficult but has never given me cause for despondency. Indeed, in the last quarter of a century, research on the vascular endothelium has been very productive and its results have contribut
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