Effects of fibronectin bonding on healing of high porosity expanded polytetrafluoroethylene grafts in pigs

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 667-673

  Nishibe, T ^a   O'Donnel, S ^a   Pikoulis, E ^a   Rich, N ^a   Okuda, Y ^a   Kumada, T ^a   Kudo, F ^a   Tanabe, T ^a   Yasuda, K ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood vessel prosthesis; Disease models, animals; Fibronectins; Polytetrafluoroethylene

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; POLITEF;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CHEMICAL BINDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HEALING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTIMA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLITEF IMPLANT; POROSITY; SWINE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; SWINE; VASCULAR PATENCY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0035170190     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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