Arterial autografts in the rat

✍ Scribed by D. L. Froggatt

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 368 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800580812

✦ Synopsis

It is shown that important histological changes occur in autografts in the rat aorta. These changes include the loss of endothelium and the degeneration of elastin.

Such changes may be the result of ischaemia in the grafts caused by destruction of the vasa vasorum. ARTERIES are living structures and thus have a definite blood-supply. The description of this circulation was made by Woerner (1959). This blood-supply comes from two sources : first from the lumen which supplies FIG. I.-Rat aortic autograft 20 minutes after grafting, showing thrombus formation. H. and E. ( x 76.