In vivo applications of electrospun tissue-engineered vascular grafts: A review

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 628-640

  Rocco, Kevin A ^a   Maxfield, Mark W ^b   Best, Cameron A ^c   Dean, Ethan W ^b   Breuer, Christopher K ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; DEGRADATION; ELECTROSPINNING; GRAFTS; POLYMERS; PORE SIZE; TISSUE;

BIORESORBABLE POLYMERS; CELLULAR INTERACTION; ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PRODUCTION; METHODS AND MATERIALS; SYNTHETIC VASCULAR GRAFT; TISSUE ENGINEERED VASCULAR GRAFTS; VASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

DACRON; POLITEF; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYESTER; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYURETHAN; BIOMATERIAL;

BIODEGRADABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL INTERACTION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ELECTROSPINNING; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STENOSIS; THROMBOSIS; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; VASCULAR TISSUE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84913546799     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2014.0123     Document Type: Review

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