A Novel Rat Model to Test Intra-Abdominal Anti-adhesive Therapy

Background: Adhesion formation after abdominal surgery is considered almost inevitable and a major cause of morbidity. Novel treatments have been proposed, however there is a lack of suitable small animal models for pre-clinical evaluation, mainly due to inconsistency in adhesion formation in positi...

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Main Authors: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Ahmed Bassiouni, Matthew Smith, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Alkis J. Psaltis, Sarah Vreugde, Peter J. Wormald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Surgery
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsurg.2020.00012/full