Impact of vascular endothelial growth factor on skin graft survival in irradiated rats

Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 110-113

  Richter, Gresham T ^a,d   Bowen III, Travis ^a   Boerma, Marjan ^b,c   Fan, Chun Yang ^c   Hauer Jensen, Martin ^b,c   Vural, Emre ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 63149189253     PISSN: 15212491     EISSN: 15383660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfacial.2008.526     Document Type: Article

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