Quantitative analysis of the microvasculature growing in the fibrin interface between a skin graft and the recipient site

Microvascular Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-129

  Wu, Xuemei ^a   Kathuria, Neil ^a   Patrick, Charles W ^a   Reece, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microvasculature; Quantitative; Revascularization; Skin graft; Three dimensional; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN GRAFT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; VASCULAR TISSUE;

ANIMALS; FIBRIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 37349040751     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2007.04.012     Document Type: Article

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