Regenerating synovial lining of the normal rabbit knee: A scanning electron microscopy study

Scanning Microscopy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 371-384

  Stein, Haim ^a,b   Levanon, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biomechanical incongruity in knee; Contralateral leg; Fibrillation; Knee; Rabbit; Regeneration; Scanning electron microscopy; Synovectomy; Synovial linings; Tannic acid

Indexed keywords

TANNIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; KNEE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNOVECTOMY; SYNOVIUM; TISSUE REGENERATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RABBITS; REGENERATION; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0030316481     PISSN: 08917035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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