Ethanol inhibition of porcine bioprosthetic heart valve cusp calcification is enhanced by reduction with sodium borohydride

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 487-493

  Connolly, Jeanne M ^a   Alferiev, Ivan ^a   Kronsteiner, Allyson ^a   Lu, Zhibin ^a   Levy, Robert J ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BORANE DERIVATIVE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; CYANOBOROHYDRIDE SODIUM; GLUTARALDEHYDE; REDUCING AGENT; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE; SOLVENT;

ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CALCINOSIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SKIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; BOROHYDRIDES; CALCINOSIS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ETHANOL; GLUTARAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REDUCING AGENTS; SKIN; SOLVENTS;

EID: 5144221633     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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