Surgery
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Intraluminal gene transfer of endothelial cell-nitric oxide synthase suppresses intimal hyperplasia of vein grafts in cholesterol-fed rabbit: A limited biological effect as a result of the loss of medial smooth muscle cells

,Accepted 15 March 2002.

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☆ This work was supported in part by a grant-in-aid for General Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Kimihiro Komori, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.

PII: S0039-6060(02)00008-9

doi: 10.1067/msy.2002.124878

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