A new model for studying the revascularization of skin grafts in vivo: The role of angiogenesis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1669-1680

  Lindenblatt, Nicole ^a,b,c   Calcagni, Maurizio ^a,b,c   Contaldo, Claudio ^a,b,c   Menger, Michael D ^a,b,c   Giovanoli, Pietro ^a,b,c   Vollmar, Brigitte ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; ENGRAFTMENT; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GRAFT PERFUSION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INGUINAL REGION; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; SKIN GRAFT; SKINFOLD; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BIDENS; C57BL MOUSE; DERMATITIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; VIDEORECORDING;

CD31 ANTIGEN; HIF1A PROTEIN, MOUSE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; BIDENS; CAPILLARIES; DERMATITIS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 58149399927     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818cbeb1     Document Type: Article

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