The effect of a subcutaneous silicone rubber implant with shallow surface microgrooves on the surrounding tissues in rabbits

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 539-547

  Den Braber, E T ^a   De Ruijter, J E ^a   Jansen, J A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Implant interface; In vivo; Scanning electron microscopy; Soft tissue reaction; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CELLS; COLLAGEN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LASER APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RUBBER PRODUCTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICONES; TEXTURES;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE MICROGROOVES;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

COLLAGEN; FIBRIN; RUBBER; SILICONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSELS; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RABBITS; SILICONES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 9844265397     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(19971215)37:4<539::AID-JBM13>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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