Functional small-diameter human tissue-engineered arterial grafts in an immunodeficient mouse model: Preliminary findings

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 488-494

  Nelson, Gregory N ^a   Mirensky, Tamar ^a   Brennan, Matthew P ^a   Roh, Jason D ^a   Yi, Tai ^a   Wang, Yinong ^a   Breuer, Christopher K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO SELECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; AORTA; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 44149100529     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.143.5.488     Document Type: Article

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