Should the aortic valve homograft be recryopreserved?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 4 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 1083-1086

  Ohkado, Akihiko ^a   Hachida, Mitsuhiro ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a   Lu, Hua ^a   Hanayama, Naoji ^a   Hoshi, Hironobu ^a   Koyanagi, Hitoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAWING;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOPLASM; DOGS; ELASTIC TISSUE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREEZING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NITROGEN; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0031946583     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(98)00095-2     Document Type: Article

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