The mouse excisional wound splinting model, including applications for stem cell transplantation

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 302-309

  Wang, Xusheng ^a   Ge, Jianfeng ^a   Tredget, Edward E ^b   Wu, Yaojiong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIGEL;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL REGENERATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLINT; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; GRANULATION TISSUE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; RE-EPITHELIALIZATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPLINTS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84873374025     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.002     Document Type: Article

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