Differential healing and neovascularization of ePTFE implants in subcutaneous versus adipose tissue

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 473-481

  Williams, Stuart K ^a   Berman, Scott S ^a   Kleinert, Leigh B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELLS; GRAFTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; SURGERY; TISSUE;

EPIDIDYMAL FAT PAD TISSUE; NEOVASCULARIZATION; POLYMER HEALING; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

POLITEF;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; POLITEF IMPLANT; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WOUND HEALING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 8244262449     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(19970615)35:4<473::AID-JBM7>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Conference Paper

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