Engineering of vaginal tissue in vivo

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 301-306

  de Filippo, Roger E ^a   Yoo, James J ^a   Atala, Anthony ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN ANTIBODY; ALPHA ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN; KERATIN; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMER; ACTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL TYPE; CLOACA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; FEMALE; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VAGINA; VAGINA EPITHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NUDE MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOGRAFT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; KERATINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PHENOTYPE; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RABBITS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VAGINA;

EID: 0038578017     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107632703764664765     Document Type: Article

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