Factor

An event, circumstance, influence, or element that plays a part in bringing about a result.

A factor in a case contributes to its causation or outcome. In the area of Negligence law, the factors, or chain of causation, are important in determining whether liability ensues from a particular action done by the defendant.

factor

n. 1) a salesman who sells in his/her own name on behalf of others, taking a commission for services. 2) something that contributes to the result.

factor

1 a mercantile agent. An agent who is in the ordinary course of business entrusted with goods or documents of title representing goods with a view to their sale. A factor has a lien over goods entrusted to him; this lien covers any claims he may have against his principal arising out of the agency. Most factors will be mercantile agents (and have the powers of such) for the purposes of the Factors Act 1889. Under this Act, in certain circumstances a factor may pass a good title to goods entrusted to him.

2 an institution to whom a company assigns its book debts (see FACTORING).

3 in Scotland a landlord or superior's agent.

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Mysliwiec et al., "Association between vascular endothelial growth factor and hypertension in children and adolescents type I diabetes mellitus," Journal of Human Hypertension, vol.

The Increased Circulating Plasma Levels of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Do Not Correlate to Metabolic Control

[22.] Stavri GT, Zachary IC, Baskerville PA, Martin JF, Erusalimsky JD (1995) Basic fibroblast growth factor upregulates the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in vascular smooth muscle cells.

Topical binahong (Anredera cordifolia) leaf extract increases Interleukin-6 and VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) during burn wound healing in wistar rats infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Cloning and optimization of soluble vascular endothelial growth [Factor.sub.165] expression in Escherichia coli

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Evaluation of vascular endothelial growth factors A, C and D as indicators of lymphangiogenesis and angiogenesis in invasive and non-invasive urothelial carcinoma bladder

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Vascular endothelial growth factor in ocular fluid of patients with diabetic retinopathy and other retinal disorders.

Intravitreal injection of Bevacizumab in diabetic macular edema

The research centres on the role in the body of the signal protein, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) which comes in two formspro angiogenic, which encourages the growth of blood vessels, and antiangiogenic, which inhibits vascular growth.

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