Tissue engineering of the anterior cruciate ligament: A new method using acellularized tendon allografts and autologous fibroblasts

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 735-741

  Tischer, Thomas ^a   Vogt, Stephan ^a   Aryee, Sebastian ^a   Steinhauser, Erwin ^a   Adamczyk, Christopher ^c   Milz, Stefan ^c,d   Martinek, Vladimir ^b   Imhoff, Andreas B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d AO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allografts; Anterior cruciate ligament; Autografts; Replacement; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 6; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PROCOLLAGEN C PROTEINASE; VERSICAN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOMECHANICS; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL METABOLISM; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOADING TEST; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RIGIDITY; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SKIN FIBROBLAST; TENDON GRAFT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; RABBITS; TENDONS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 35248864762     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0320-0     Document Type: Article

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