Aortic valve interstitial cells: An evaluation of cell viability and cell phenotype over time

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 881-887

  Cimini, Massimo ^a,b   Rogers, Kem A ^a   Boughner, Derek R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; FORMALDEHYDE; TRYPAN BLUE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL POPULATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANT; FIBROBLAST; HEART VALVE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; TISSUE SECTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HYDROXYLATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PHENOTYPE; PROCOLLAGEN-PROLINE DIOXYGENASE; STRESS FIBERS; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0036856162     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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