Tissue-Engineered Spleen Protects Against Overwhelming Pneumococcal Sepsis in a Rodent Model

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 214-218

  Grikscheit, Tracy C ^a   Sala, Frédéric G ^a   Ogilvie, Jennifer ^b   Bower, Kate A ^c   Ochoa, Erin R ^b   Alsberg, Eben ^d   Mooney, David ^e   Vacanti, Joseph P ^f  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

overwhelming postsplenectomy sepsis; pneumococcal sepsis; solid organ tissue engineering; tissue engineering; tissue engineered intestine; tissue engineered spleen

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAZARD RATIO; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTICEMIA; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE SLICE;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BIOARTIFICIAL ORGANS; MALE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REGENERATION; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 51049119420     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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