In vivo characterization of a porous hydrogel material for use as a tissue bulking agent

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 575-581

  Loebsack, Anna ^a   Greene, Kim ^a   Wyatt, Sharon ^b   Culberson, Cathy ^b   Austin, Catherine ^b   Beiler, Rudy ^b   Roland, Wendy ^b   Eiselt, Petra ^c   Rowley, Jon ^c   Burg, Karen ^c   Mooney, David ^c   Holder, Walter ^c   Halberstadt, Craig ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alginate; Animal model; Confocal microscopy; Hydrogel; RGD peptides; Rodent; Soft tissue engineering; Surgical implantation

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; CELLS; GRANULATION; TISSUE;

INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE;

HYDROGELS;

ALGINIC ACID; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOMATERIAL; BULKING AGENT; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HYDROGEL; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; RAT; TISSUE GROWTH;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGELS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035892412     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4636(20011215)57:4<575::AID-JBM1204>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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