Does rat granulation tissue maturation involve gap junction communications?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-99

  Au, Katherine ^a   Ehrlich, H Paul ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN FIBER; OLEAMIDE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIREFRINGENCE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GAP JUNCTION; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COMMUNICATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GRANULATION TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OLEIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34250787523     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000263363.28474.e9     Document Type: Article

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