Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions -- abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel has now been shown to prevented adhesions in mice and pigs. Surgical ...
When tested in mice and minipigs, the T-5224-impregnated gel significantly reduced the formation of adhesions—scored from 0 to 5 by the degree of contact between neighboring tissues—by nearly ...
We recently discovered that these structures are essential for the establishment of reticular adhesions. In our lab, we aim to elucidate the interplay of clathrin structures with the actin ...
Surgical adhesions—common, sometimes life-threatening complications that arise after open or laparoscopic abdominal surgery—can be prevented in mice and pigs by a gel impregnated with a ...
for the prophylaxis of pelvic adhesions in patients undergoing radical oophorectomy for epithelial ovarian cancer.