Alcohol pretreatment of small-diameter expanded polytetrafluoroethylene grafts: Quantitative analysis of graft healing characteristics in the rat abdominal aorta interposition model

Artificial Organs

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 532-537

  Pektok, Erman ^a   Cikirikcioglu, Mustafa ^a   Tille, Jean Christophe ^a   Kalangos, Afksendiyos ^a   Walpoth, Beat H ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blood vessel prosthesis; Vascular endothelium; Wettability

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CELL CULTURE; ETHANOL; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); GRAFTS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; RATS;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; CELLULARS; ENDOTHELIALIZATION; EXPANDED POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; HYDROPHILIC PROPERTIES; INTIMAL HYPERPLASIA; PATENCY RATES; PRE-TREATMENTS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR PROSTHESIS;

WETTING;

ALCOHOL; POLITEF; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM; FIBROBLAST; HEALING; HISTOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MODEL; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SAMPLING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

EID: 67650818743     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00731.x     Document Type: Article

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