Remodeling and suppression of intimal hyperplasia of vascular grafts with a distal arteriovenous fistula in a rat model

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 701-706

  Qin, Feng ^a   Dardik, Herbert ^a   Pangilinan, Audwin ^a   Robinson, Jody ^a   Chuy, Jennifer ^a   Wengerter, Kurt ^a  

^a ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DESMIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL; AORTA; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTIMA; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REGENERATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TAIL; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ACTINS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; AORTA; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL DIVISION; DESMIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGENERATION; TAIL; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TUNICA INTIMA; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0035490306     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2001.116804     Document Type: Article

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