Achilles detachment in rat and stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157: Promoted tendon-to-bone healing and opposed corticosteroid aggravation

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 982-989

  Krivic, Andrija ^a,b   Anic, Tomislav ^b   Seiwerth, Sven ^a   Huljev, Dubravko ^b   Sikiric, Predrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Sveti Duh General Hospital   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 (BPC 157); Tendon to bone healing

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; GLYCYLGLUTAMYLPROLYLPROLYLPROLYLGLYCYLLYSYLPROLYLALANYLASPARTYLASPARTYLALANYLGLYCYLLEUCYLVALINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PL 14736; PLIVA; ANTIULCER AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; NITRIC OXIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CALCANEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MECHANISM; ELASTICITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TENDON INJURY; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT; WOUND HEALING;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; BIOMECHANICS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TENDON INJURIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33744499697     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.20096     Document Type: Article

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