Development of a Mouse Model for Evaluation of Small Diameter Vascular Grafts

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-6

  Lopez Soler, Reynold I ^a   Brennan, Matthew P ^a   Goyal, Amit ^a   Wang, Yinong ^a   Fong, Peter ^a   Tellides, George ^a   Sinusas, Albert ^a   Dardik, Alan ^a   Breuer, Christopher ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

grafts; microsurgery; polyurethane; SCID mice; silastic; tissue engineering; vascular

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, SCID; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; SHEEP; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33947586757     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.07.040     Document Type: Article

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