Detoxification on top of enhanced, diamine-extended glutaraldehyde fixation significantly reduces bioprosthetic root calcification in the sheep model

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-101

  Trantina Yates, Ameli E ^a   Human, Paul ^a   Zilla, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DIAMINE DERIVATIVE; GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DETOXIFICATION; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CALCINOSIS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DIAMINES; GLUTARAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, ANIMAL; SHEEP; SORPTION DETOXIFICATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0037266602     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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