In utero repair of an experimental neural tube defect in a chronic sheep model using biomatrices

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 335-340

  Eggink, A J ^a   Roelofs, L A J ^a   Feitz, W F J ^a   Wijnen, R M H ^a   Mullaart, R A ^a   Grotenhuis, J A ^a   Van Kuppevelt, T H ^a   Lammens, M M Y ^a   Crevels, A J ^a   Hanssen, A ^a   Van Den Berg, P P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fetal surgery; Myelomeningocele; Neural tube defect; Sheep; Spina bifida; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIRTH; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; MORBIDITY; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; UTERUS; UTERUS SURGERY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETOSCOPY; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SHEEP; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 23944433908     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086808     Document Type: Article

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