Viewing the microcirculation through the window: Some twenty years experience with the hamster dorsal skinfold chamber

European Surgical Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 83-91

  Menger, Michael D ^a   Laschke, Matthias W ^a   Vollmar, Brigitte ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Hamster; Inflammation; Intravital microscopy; Ischemia reperfusion; Microcirculation; Sepsis; Skinfold chamber; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

ANESTHESIA; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIA; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION; SEPSIS; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKINFOLD; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; REPERFUSION INJURY; SEPSIS; SKIN; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0036190793     PISSN: 0014312X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000048893     Document Type: Article

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