Development of a growing rat model for the in vivo assessment of engineered aortic conduits

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 367-375

  Assmann, Alexander ^a   Akhyari, Payam ^a   Delfs, Christofer ^a   Flögel, Ulrich ^a   Jacoby, Christoph ^a   Kamiya, Hiroyuki ^a   Lichtenberg, Artur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

aortic conduit transplantation; cardiovascular degeneration; growing rat model; magnetic resonance imaging; tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA FLOW; AORTA GRAFT; AORTIC CONDUIT GRAFT; ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THROMBOGENESIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; BODY WEIGHT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84863986421     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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