Gamma radiation alters the ultrastructure in tissue-engineered heart valve scaffolds

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3597-3604

  Van Nooten, Guido ^a   Somers, Pamela ^a   Cuvelier, Claude A ^b   De Somer, Filip ^a   Cornelissen, Maria ^b   Cox, Eric ^b   Verloo, Marc ^b   Chiers, Koen ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAMMA RAYS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; IRRADIATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SCAFFOLDS; TENSILE TESTING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNE; CONTROL MATRICES; EXTRACELLULAR; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HEART VALVES; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIGHT MICROSCOPY; RAT SERUM; SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE-ENGINEERED HEART; WISTAR RAT;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

CALCIUM; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HEART VALVE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RAT; SWINE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENOGRAFT;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SUS;

EID: 72649105118     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2008.0690     Document Type: Article

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