Accelerated healing of the rat Achilles tendon in response to autologous conditioned serum

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2117-2125

  Majewski, Martin ^a   Ochsner, Peter E ^b   Liu, Fanjun ^c   Flückiger, Rudolf ^c   Evans, Christopher H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Klinik St Anna   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Autologous conditioned serum; Biological repair; Growth factors

Indexed keywords

AUTOLOGOUS CONDITIONED SERUM; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 1 ALPHA1; EOSIN; GROWTH FACTOR; HEMATOXYLIN; PROTEIN LYSINE 6 OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUOROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIGIDITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TENDON INJURY; TENDON SUTURE; THICKNESS; TISSUE REPAIR;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; COLLAGEN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; PROTEIN-LYSINE 6-OXIDASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70649095070     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546509348047     Document Type: Article

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