The future: Rehabilitation, gene therapy, optimization of healing

Foot and Ankle Clinics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 383-397

  Sharma, Pankaj ^a,b   Maffulli, Nicola ^b  

^a Highcroft ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 12; CARTILAGE DERIVED MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; CYTOKINE; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; GROWTH FACTOR; HYALURONIC ACID; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; POLYETHYLENE; SILICONE; SOMATOMEDIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACHILLES TENDON; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ADHESION; ANGIOGENESIS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CYTOKINES; FORECASTING; GENE THERAPY; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; RUPTURE; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 19544371008     PISSN: 10837515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcl.2005.01.005     Document Type: Review

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