Evaluation of the effect of sildenafil and vascular endothelium growth factor combination treatment on skin flap survival in rats

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 624-631

  Tsai, John W ^a   Ayubi, Farhan S ^a   Hart, Kristopher L ^b   Baur, Dale A ^c   Parham, Mary A ^a   Moon, Jay K ^a   Vazquez, Raymond ^d   Chasen, Arthur B ^a   Zhang, Zhuo ^a   Pizarro, Jose M ^a  

^a EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARL R DARNALL ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^d TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Rat; Sildenafil; Skin flap; VEGF

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT VASCULOTROPIN; SILDENAFIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; GRAFT NECROSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION SPECTRAL IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; PIPERAZINES; PURINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SULFONES; SURGICAL FLAPS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 46849119814     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-008-9166-2     Document Type: Article

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