The role of repair tension on tendon to bone healing in an animal model of chronic rotator cuff tears

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 561-568

  Gimbel, Jonathan A ^a   Van Kleunen, Jonathan P ^a   Lake, Spencer P ^a   Williams, Gerald R ^a   Soslowsky, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Chronic; Rotator cuff; Shoulder; Supraspinatus tendon; Tension

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BONE; COLLAGEN; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; REPAIR; SURGERY; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMAL MODEL; CHRONIC; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDERS; SUPRASPINATUS TENDON; TENSION;

TENDONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTURE HEALING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RIGIDITY; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENSION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; RATS; ROTATOR CUFF; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33846224742     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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