Improving endothelial cell retention for single stage seeding of prosthetic grafts: Use of polymer sequences of arginine-glycine-aspartate

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 325-329

  Tiwari, A ^a   Kidane, A ^a   Salacinski, H ^a   Punshon, G ^a   Hamilton, G ^a   Seifalian, Alexander M ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arginine glycine aspartate; Endothelial seeding; Heparin; Human umbilical vein endothelial cells; Polyurethane; Prosthetic graft; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCINE; POLITEF; POLYMER; POLYURETHAN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL ADHESION; CELL ASSAY; CELL METABOLISM; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UMBILICAL VEIN;

EID: 0038405176     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ejvs.2002.1854     Document Type: Article

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