Improvement of full-thickness skin graft survival by application of vascular endothelial growth factor in rats

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 589-593

  Zhang, Feng ^a   Oswald, Tanya M ^a   Lin, Lin ^a   Wang, Shouyu ^a   Lin, Shuying ^a   Lineaweaver, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Skin graft; VEGF

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIOSTEUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOPICAL TREATMENT;

ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 42549163259     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31816d78fe     Document Type: Conference Paper

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