Article
Growth factor gene expression by intimal cells in healing polytetrafluoroethylene grafts.
Journal of vascular surgery - 1 Apr 1990
Golden M A, Au Y P, Kenagy R D, Clowes A W
Abstract excerpt
Vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation resulting in intimal hyperplasia is a major cause of late graft failure. In baboons, healing 60 microns internodal distance polytetrafluoroethylene vascular grafts form an intima composed of proliferating smooth muscle cells with a luminal lining of endot...
Topics
- Animals
- Aorta, Thoracic
- Blood Vessel Prosthesis
- Blotting, Northern
- Cells, Cultured
- Gene Expression
- Growth Substances
- Male
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
- Papio
- Phenotype
- Polytetrafluoroethylene