Polyurethane vascular grafts with thorough porosity: Does an internal or an external membrane wrapping improve their in vivo blood compatibility and biofunctionality?

Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Immobilization Biotechnology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 463-484

  Wang, Zhaoxu ^a,b   Liu, Shuqing ^a,c   Guidoin, Robert ^a,b,d   Kodama, Makoto ^a  

^a NATL INST FOR ADV INTERDISC RES   (Japan)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood conduit; Graft healing; Polyurethane; Vascular graft

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; FABRICATION; MUSCLE; POLYURETHANES; POROSITY;

AORTA; BLOOD FLOW; FREEZE-DRYING; MEMBRANE WRAPPING;

BLOOD;

HEPARIN; POLYURETHAN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPATIBILITY; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FREEZE DRYING; GRAFT PATENCY; HEALING; IMPLANTATION; INTIMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; TUBE;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; POLYURETHANES; POROSITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 5444247690     PISSN: 10731199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/BIO-200027524     Document Type: Article

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