Vascular tissue adaptations in end-to-end autologous arterial grafts in rats: A morphometric analysis

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-43

  Purcell, Clive ^a   Tennant, Marc ^a   Mcgeachie, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artery graft; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; INTIMA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGENERATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THICKNESS; VASCULAR TISSUE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGENERATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TUNICA INTIMA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031899903     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021878297003099     Document Type: Article

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