Translating autologous heart valve tissue engineering from bench to bed

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 307-317

  Hjortnaes, Jesper ^a   Bouten, Carlijn V C ^a,b   Van Herwerden, Lex A ^a   Gründeman, Paul F ^a   Kluin, Jolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STUDIES; AORTIC HEART VALVES; AORTIC VALVES; APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES; ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; CLINICAL USE; CURRENT LIMITATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; HEART VALVES; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; TISSUE-ENGINEERED HEART; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD VESSELS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); PROSTHETICS; TISSUE; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; ELASTIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BIOMECHANICS; EXPLANT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70049090248     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2008.0565     Document Type: Review

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