Decorin antisense gene therapy improves functional healing of early rabbit ligament scar with enhanced collagen fibrillogenesis in vivo

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 517-523

  Nakamura, Norimasa ^a,b   Hart, David A ^a   Boorman, Richard S ^a   Kaneda, Yasufumi ^b   Shrive, Nigel G ^a   Marchuk, Linda L ^a   Shino, Konsei ^c   Ochi, Takahiro ^b   Frank, Cyril B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COLLAGEN FIBRILLOGENESIS; FUNCTIONAL HEALING; GENE THERAPY;

LIGAMENTS;

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; DECORIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; HEALING; IN VIVO STUDY; JOINT INSTABILITY; LIGAMENT INJURY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCAR FORMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0034232654     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.1100180402     Document Type: Article

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