Skeletal reconstruction by vascularized allogenic bone transplantation: Effects of statin in rats

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 869-871

  Ohno, Teruyasu ^a   Shigetomi, Mitsunori ^a   Ihara, Koichiro ^a   Matsunaga, Tsunemitsu ^a   Hashimoto, Takahiro ^a   Kawano, Hiroo ^a   Sugiyama, Toshihiro ^a   Kawai, Shinya ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERIVASTATIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; STATINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE REGENERATION; BONE REMODELING; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CORTICAL BONE; DRUG EFFECT; FIBULA; FRACTURE HEALING; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIBIA;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CYCLOSPORINE; FRACTURE HEALING; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; OSTEOGENESIS; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0141813534     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000074992.49236.58     Document Type: Article

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