Chronic allograft rejection associated vasculopathy and synthetic biodegradable vascular grafts: A lesson to learn?

Critical Reviews in Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-88

  Nieuwenhuis, Paul ^a   Hillebrands, Jan Luuk ^a   Rozing, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic rejection; Intimal hyperplasia; Smooth muscle cells; Transplant vascular sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; BIODEGRADATION; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; GRAFT REJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0034067988     PISSN: 10408401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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