Fast-degrading elastomer enables rapid remodeling of a cell-free synthetic graft into a neoartery

Nature Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1148-1153

  Wu, Wei ^a,b   Allen, Robert A ^a   Wang, Yadong ^a,c,d  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; ELASTOMER; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; POLY(GLYCEROL SEBACATE); SEBACIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; ENDOTHELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; LYMPH VESSEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANIMALS; AORTA; ARTERIES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DECANOATES; ELASTOMERS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLYCEROL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PLATELET ADHESIVENESS; POLYMERS; POROSITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84863720406     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2821     Document Type: Article

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