Separation of the arterial wall from blood contact using hydrogel barriers reduces intimal thickening after balloon injury in the rat The roles of medial and luminal factors in arterialhealing.PDF

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 93, pp. 13188–13193, November 1996 Medical Sciences Separation of the arterial wall from blood contact using hydrogel barriers reduces intimal thickening after balloon injury in the rat: The roles of medial and luminal factors in arterial healing JENNIFER L. WEST * AND JEFFREY A. HUBBELL†‡ *Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712; and †Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Communicated by Norman Davidson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA