Increased vascularization and heterogeneity of vascular structures occurring in polyglycolide matrices containing aortic endothelial cells implanted in the rat

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-160

  Holder, Walter D ^a   Gruber, Helen E ^a   Roland, Wendy D ^a   Moore, Alecia L ^a   Culberson, Catherine R ^a   Loebsack, Anna B ^a   Burg, Karen J L ^a   Mooney, David J ^b  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CAPILLARY PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0343471403     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.1997.3.149     Document Type: Article

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