Healing characteristics of electrospun polyurethane grafts with various porosities

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 6032-6040

  Bergmeister, Helga ^a,b   Schreiber, Catharina ^a,b   Grasl, Christian ^a,b   Walter, Ingrid ^c   Plasenzotti, Roberto ^a,b   Stoiber, Martin ^a,b   Bernhard, David ^a   Schima, Heinrich ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Ludwig Boltzmann Cluster for Rheumatology   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Host cell migration; Porosity; Vascular grafts

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GRAFTS; MESH GENERATION; POLYURETHANES; PORE SIZE; VOID FRACTION;

CELL ATTACHMENTS; CELL MIGRATION; COARSE MESHES; ELECTROSPUNS; HOST CELL MIGRATION; HOST CELLS; IN-VITRO; PORES SIZE CONTROLS; TIME POINTS; VASCULAR GRAFTS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; DESMIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; POLYURETHAN; VASCULOTROPIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPINNING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

RATTUS;

EID: 84875371946     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2012.12.009     Document Type: Article

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