Abstract
Production of an artificial blood vessel for implantation into a recipient comprises coating a porous plastics tube with a collagen material and crosslinking the collagen material with a compound capable of forming peptide bonds, the degree of crosslinking being such that 8-20 out of 27 free amino groups per 1000 amino acids are not crosslinked.
Original language | English |
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Patent number | NL1008724C |
IPC | C08H 1/ 06 A I |
Priority date | 27/03/98 |
Publication status | Published - 28 Sept 1999 |