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Angiogenesis — Historical perspective

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Angiogenesis

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The historical continuity of ideas in a relatively limited field of thought is nowhere more strikingly illustrated than in the development of knowledge on blood capillaries and their network formation in the living body [1].

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  1. Research Division, Department of Surgery, University Hospital, CH-8091, Zürich, Switzerland

    R. Steiner

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  1. Research Division, Dept. of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

    Rudolf Steiner

  2. Dept. of Chemical and Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Room 312, Towne Building/D3, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Paul B. Weisz

  3. Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Harvard — MIT Division of Health, Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building E 25 Room 342, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Robert Langer

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Steiner, R. (1992). Angiogenesis — Historical perspective. In: Steiner, R., Weisz, P.B., Langer, R. (eds) Angiogenesis. Experientia Supplementum, vol 61. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7001-6_1

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