Tissue-engineered vascular adventitia with vasa vasorum improves graft integration and vascularization through inosculation

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2617-2626

  Guillemette, Maxime D ^a,b   Gauvin, Robert ^a,b   Perron, Cindy ^a,b   Labbé, Raymond ^a,b   Germain, Lucie ^a,b   Auger, Francois A ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL CULTURE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SELF ASSEMBLY; STRAIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; BRANCHING STRUCTURES; BURST PRESSURES; BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERIES; FAILURE STRAIN; IMPLANTATION PERIODS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PERIPHERAL ARTERIES; POST-IMPLANTATION; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TISSUE SHEETS; TISSUE-ENGINEERED BLOOD VESSELS; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH; VASA VASORUM; VASCULARIZATION; VASCULARIZE;

BIOMECHANICS;

SUIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77956084312     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0612     Document Type: Article

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