The use of therapeutic gene eNOS delivered via a fibrin scaffold enhances wound healing in a compromised wound model

Biomaterials

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3143-3151

  Breen, Ailish M ^a   Dockery, Peter ^a   O'Brien, Timothy ^a   Pandit, Abhay S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fibrin; Gene transfer; Nitric oxide; Scaffold; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; NITRIC OXIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCAFFOLDS;

DIABETIC HEALING; EPITHELIALISATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; WOUND HEALING;

GENE TRANSFER;

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ALLOXAN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; FIBRIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIZATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCER; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; WOUND HEALING;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; COLLAGEN; EAR; FIBRIN; GENE THERAPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSFECTION; ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 43049174901     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.04.020     Document Type: Article

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