Arterial embolization using poly-N-acetyl glucosamine gel in a rat kidney model

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 454-459

  Kang, Qian K ^a   An, Yuehuei H ^a   Moreira, Patricia L ^a   Demcheva, Marina V ^b   Vournakis, John N ^b  

^a Medical University of South Carolina   (United States)

^b Marine Polymer Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Embolization; Glucosamine; Kidney; Rats

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FIBROSIS; GEL; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RENAL ARTERY;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ANIMALS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; KIDNEY; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYSACCHARIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 18244378788     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20187     Document Type: Article

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