Improved healing of small-caliber, long-fibril expanded polytetrafluoroethylene vascular grafts by covalent bonding of fibronectin

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1025-1030

  Shimada, Toshifumi ^a   Nishibe, Toshiya ^a,c   Miura, Hidehiko ^a   Hazama, Kazuaki ^a   Kato, Hiroyuki ^a   Kudo, Fabio ^a   Murashita, Toshifumi ^a   Okuda, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Covalent bonding; Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene graft; Fibronectin

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; POLITEF;

ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; DOG; HEALING; ILIAC ARTERY; IMPLANTATION; INTIMA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; FEMORAL ARTERY; FIBRONECTINS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 12144272826     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2862-x     Document Type: Article

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