Nitric oxide-eluting polyurethanes - Vascular grafts of the future?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 730-731

  Verma, Subodh ^a   Marsden, Philip A ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACRON; DIAZENIUM DIOLATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; POLITEF; POLYURETHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AZO COMPOUND; BIOMATERIAL; DIAZENIUMDIOLATE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MAMMARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT OCCLUSION; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; AZO COMPOUNDS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; POLYURETHANES;

EID: 23844520032     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr052030     Document Type: Article

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