Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Accelerated Bone-Tendon Junction Healing Through Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression and Cartilage Formation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1248-1260

  Lu, Hongbin ^a,b   Qin, Ling ^a   Cheung, Winghoi ^a   Lee, Kwongman ^a   Wong, Wannar ^a   Leung, Kwoksui ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone tendon junction; Chondrogenesis; Low intensity pulsed ultrasound; Patella patellar tendon complex; Repair; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; CARTILAGE FORMATION; CHONDROCYTES; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROL GROUP (CON); HEALING PROCESSES; IN BETWEEN; LOW-INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND (LIPUS); RABBIT MODELS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF);

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; FIBROCARTILAGE; METAPLASIA; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCAR; TISSUE REPAIR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE-PATELLAR TENDON-BONE GRAFT; CHONDROGENESIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, ANIMAL; OSTEOTOMY; PATELLA; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PROTEOGLYCANS; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TENDON INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 47549112318     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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