Alteration of knee joint connective tissues during contracture formation in spastic rats after an experimentally induced spinal cord injury

Connective Tissue Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 180-187

  Moriyama, Hideki ^a   Yoshimura, Osamu ^b   Kawamata, Seiichi ^c   Takemoto, Hidenori ^c   Saka, Yukari ^c   Tobimatsu, Yoshiko ^c  

^a SAITAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima City Counseling Center for the Physically Disabled   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arthrogenic component; Connective tissue; Contracture; Myogenic component; Spasticity

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FLEXION CONTRACTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT CONTRACTURE; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PERIARTICULAR JOINT DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; COLLAGEN TYPE III; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTRACTURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; KNEE JOINT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STIFLE; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 34547582547     PISSN: 03008207     EISSN: 16078438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03008200701413512     Document Type: Article

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