Healing of tendon defects implanted with a porous collagen-GAG matrix: Histological evaluation

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-195

  Louie, L K ^a,d   Yannas, I V ^a   Hsu, H P ^b,c   Spector, M ^a,b,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN IMPLANT; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN;

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON LESION; TISSUE REPAIR;

EID: 0030996445     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.1997.3.187     Document Type: Article

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