Rapid three-dimensional quantification of VEGF-induced scaffold neovascularisation by microcomputed tomography

Biomaterials

Volumn 30, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 5959-5968

  Schmidt, Christian ^a   Bezuidenhout, Deon ^a   Beck, Michael ^b   Van der Merwe, Elizabeth ^a   Zilla, Peter ^a   Davies, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Microcomputed tomography; Scaffold; Vascularisation; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MERGING EFFECTS; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); MICRO CT; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULAR NETWORK; POLYURETHANE SCAFFOLDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; VASCULAR CORROSION CASTING; VASCULAR PERFUSION; VASCULARISATION; VEGF; VESSEL DIAMETER;

CORROSION; SCAFFOLDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CD31 ANTIGEN; LECTIN; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; POLYURETHAN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLARY PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORROSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMATO;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LECTINS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PERFUSION; PYRROLIDINONES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 69249222537     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.07.044     Document Type: Article

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