Effect of viscous injectable pure alginate sol on cultured fibroblasts

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 831-838

  Nagakura, Takeshi ^b   Hirata, Hitoshi ^a   Tsujii, Masaya ^b   Sugimoto, Toshiko ^b   Miyamoto, Keiichi ^b   Horiuchi, Takashi ^b   Nagao, Masahiro ^b   Nakashima, Toshihide ^b   Uchida, Atsumasa ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; POLYPHENOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOTOXICITY; ENCAPSULATION; FIBROBLAST; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HYDROGEL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WOUND HEALING;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FIBROBLASTS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 24644474484     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000176894.70848.98     Document Type: Article

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