Tissue engineering of urethra using human vascular endothelial growth factor gene-modified bladder urothelial cells

Artificial Organs

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-99

  Guan, Yong ^a,b,d   Ou, Lailiang ^a   Hu, Gang ^a   Wang, Hongjun ^c   Xu, Yong ^b   Chen, Jiatong ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Yu, Yaoting ^a   Kong, Deling ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Tianjin Children's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Tissue engineering; Urethra; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; BLOOD; BONE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ENGINEERING; CLONING; EFFICIENCY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE THERAPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BLOOD SUPPLY; CELL/B.E; DECELLULARIZED; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MATRIX; STEM-CELL; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS; URETHRA; UROTHELIAL CELLS; VEGF;

STEM CELLS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN 165;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CELL CULTURE; CELL SELECTION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EX VIVO STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANTATION; MOUSE; MURINE STEM CELL VIRUS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAINING; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; URETHRA; UROTHELIUM; VIRUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

FISTULA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 38849195439     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2007.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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