Rat model of Achilles tendon disorder: A pilot study

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 30-39

  Messner, Karola ^a   Wei, Yuzhi ^a   Andersson, Britt ^a   Gillquist, Jan ^a   Räsänen, Tuomas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Innervation; Morphology; Rat; Tendon injury

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; SUBSTANCE P;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INNERVATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TENDON INJURY;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLAGEN; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAIT; HINDLIMB; HIP JOINT; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PILOT PROJECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE P; TORQUE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032802099     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016671     Document Type: Article

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