Laser photostimulation of collagen production in healing rabbit Achilles tendons

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 281-287

  Reddy, G Kesava ^a   Stehno Bittel, Lisa ^a   Enwemeka, Chukuka S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen crosslink; Collagen synthesis; Laser therapy; Solubility of collagen; Tendon repair; Tenotomy

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GROWTH STIMULATION; LASER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TENDON INJURY; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE REPAIR; WOUND HEALING;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLLAGEN; HELIUM; HYDROXYPROLINE; LASERS; MALE; NEON; RABBITS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031866038     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1998)22:5<281::AID-LSM4>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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