Animal models of tendinopathy

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 20-22, 2008, Pages 1530-1541

  Lake, Spencer P ^a   Ansorge, Heather L ^a   Soslowsky, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Collagenase; Overuse; Tendinopathy; Tendon

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FLICE INHIBITORY PROTEIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 6; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; STROMELYSIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TENDINITIS; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WOUND HEALING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; CARRAGEENAN; COLLAGENASES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROSTAGLANDINS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 56449128311     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701785460     Document Type: Review

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