Tendon healing: Repair and regeneration

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-71

  Voleti, Pramod B ^a   Buckley, Mark R ^a   Soslowsky, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Tendon; Tendon animal models; Tendon injury; Tendon mechanics; Tendon repair

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; INJURY MODELS; SOFT TISSUE; TENDON HEALING; TENDON INJURIES;

REPAIR;

TENDONS;

CHONDROITIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; COLLAGEN TYPE 9; DECORIN; DERMATAN SULFATE; FIBROMODULIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTIC ACID; LUMICAN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 14; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 17; OXYGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN; SOMATOMEDIN C; STROMELYSIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ACHILLES TENDON; CELL DENSITY; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CROSS LINKING; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALING; IMMOBILIZATION; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MECHANICAL TORSION; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; TENDINITIS; TENDON INJURY; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ADHESION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHICKENS; DOGS; ELASTICITY; HORSES; HUMANS; MICE; RABBITS; RATS; REGENERATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864262444     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071811-150122     Document Type: Review

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