Role of growth factors in rotator cuff healing

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 218-226

  Oliva, Francesco ^a   Via, Alessio Giai ^a   Maffulli, Nicola ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

growth factors; review; tendinopathy; tendon healing

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLASTIC GROWTH FACTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 12; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 14; COLLAGEN FIBER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 6; GROWTH FACTOR; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR AA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR AB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHILLES TENDON; CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; FIBROCARTILAGE; HEALING; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE TENDON; TENDON; TENDON CELL; TENDON HEALING; TENDON SHEATH; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA;

CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ROTATOR CUFF; TENDON INJURIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 80051753613     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e3182250c78     Document Type: Review

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