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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater. 2012 Nov 19;101(4):506–519. doi: 10.1002/jbm.b.32851

FIGURE 11.

FIGURE 11

Biocompatibility evaluation of vascular grafts in vivo with a rabbit model. (A) A 3-mm-diameter multilayer vascular graft replaced the abdominal aorta of a rabbit with anastomosis covered with medical-use gauze; (B) the open-lumen view of an explanted multilayer vascular graft with neighboring arteries, showing no thrombosis or occlusion in the graft lumen; (C) optical image of the histological cross-sectional slice of an explanted graft stained with hematoxylin and eosin, showing the migration of cells from surrounding tissues mainly into the GCC layer rather than the PCL layer, scale bar:100 μm; (D) ultrasonic image showing blood reperfusion through the graft and the lumen without any thrombosis or stenosis. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com.]