Immunotoxicity of medical devices

Fundamental and Applied Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-14

  Rodgers, Kathleen ^a   Klykken, Paal ^b   Jacobs, Joshua ^c   Frondoza, Carmelita ^d   Tomazic, Vesna ^e   Zelikoff, Judith ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DOW CORNING CORPORATION   (United States)

^c RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDIZED REGENERATED CELLULOSE; POLITEF; SILASTIC; SILICONE;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IMPLANT; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MATERIALS; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; SILICONE PROSTHESIS;

EID: 0031105328     PISSN: 02720590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/faat.1996.2279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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