Novel electrospun polyurethane/gelatin composite meshes for vascular grafts

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1761-1769

  Detta, Nicola ^a   Errico, Cesare ^a   Dinucci, Dinuccio ^a   Puppi, Dario ^a   Clarke, David A ^b   Reilly, Gwendolen C ^b   Chiellini, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION; CELL NUMBER; CO-ELECTROSPUN; COMPOSITE MESH; CYTOCOMPATIBILITY; ELECTROSPUN COMPOSITE; ELECTROSPUNS; GELATIN FIBERS; GLUTARALDEHYDES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MICRONANOSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NANOMETRICS; NATURAL BIOPOLYMERS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; ROTATING MANDREL; SMALL DIAMETER VASCULAR PROSTHESIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; SYNTHETIC GRAFTS; TECOFLEX; UNIAXIAL TENSILE TESTING; VASCULAR GRAFTS; WET CONDITIONS;

ALDEHYDES; BIOMOLECULES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; GRAFTS; SPINNING (FIBERS); TENSILE TESTING;

BLOOD VESSELS;

BIOMATERIAL; GELATIN; GLUTARALDEHYDE; POLYURETHAN;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSPINNING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; ELASTICITY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GELATIN; HUMANS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; POLYURETHANES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 77954540381     PISSN: 09574530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10856-010-4006-8     Document Type: Article

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