Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 1 , Pages 59-70 , July 2010

Transient perioperative pharmacologic inhibition of muscularis macrophages as a target for prophylaxis of postoperative ileus does not affect anastomotic healing in mice

  • Dimitrios Pantelis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Mustapha S. Kabba

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Jutta Kirfel, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Philip Kahl, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Sven Wehner, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Reinhard Buettner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Pathology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Andreas Hirner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • ,
  • Joerg C. Kalff, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Joerg C. Kalff, MD, FACS, Department of Surgery, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany.

,Accepted 15 December 2009.

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 Supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG) (KA1270/3-1/2) to the Clinical Research Group (KFO 115), and through a BONFOR Grant O-112.0028. Chlodronate was a generous gift of Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, Germany.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00813-7

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.12.010

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