Regenerative tendon and ligament healing: Opportunities with recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor BB-Homodimer

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 225-234

  Hee, Christopher K ^a   Dines, Joshua S ^b   Solchaga, Luis A ^a   Shah, Vivek R ^a   Hollinger, Jeffrey O ^c,d  

^a BioMimetic Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX DEPOSITION; LIGAMENT HEALING; LIGAMENT INJURY; MITOGENIC; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTORS; PRECLINICAL STUDIES; SCAR TISSUES; TENDON HEALING;

BIOMECHANICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PEPTIDES; PLATELETS; TENDONS;

REPAIR;

COLLAGEN; RECOMBINANT PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EMULSION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT INJURY; LIGAMENT REGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TARGET CELL; TENDON; TENDON INJURY; TENDON REGENERATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-SIS; REGENERATION; TENDONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84861804831     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2011.0603     Document Type: Review

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