Twenty-five years of tendon and ligament research

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1297-1305

  Dourte, LeAnn M ^a   Kuntz, Andrew F ^a   Soslowsky, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Healing; Ligament; Tendinopathy; Tendon

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN; LEUKOTRIENE B4; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

BIOMECHANICS; HEALING; HUMAN; LIGAMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TENDINITIS; TENDON; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE REPAIR; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; TENDINOPATHY; TENDONS;

EID: 53549089883     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.20646     Document Type: Review

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