Effects of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) on the healing of Achilles tendons of rats

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 748-756

  Kaux, Jean François ^a   Drion, Pierre V ^a   Colige, Alain ^b   Pascon, Frédéric ^b   Libertiaux, Vincent ^b   Hoffmann, Audrey ^b   Janssen, Lauriane ^b   Heyers, Antoine ^b   Nusgens, Betty V ^b   Le Goff, Caroline ^a   Gothot, André ^a   Cescotto, Serge ^b   Defraigne, Jean Olivier ^b   Rickert, Markus ^c   Crielaard, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; MESSENGER RNA; STROMELYSIN;

ACHILLES TENDON; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; COLLAGEN TYPE III; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RUPTURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDON INJURIES; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84866479920     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2012.00826.x     Document Type: Article

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