Human growth hormone may be detrimental when used to accelerate recovery from acute tendon-bone interface injuries

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 783-789

  Baumgarten, Keith M ^a   Oliver, Harvey A ^b   Foley, Jack ^d   Chen, Ding Geng ^c   Autenried, Peter ^d   Duan, Shanzhong ^e   Heiser, Patrick ^a  

^a Orthopedic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^e South Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; PLACEBO; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE INJURY; BONE STRESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; FRACTURE HEALING; INTERFACE PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; RIGIDITY; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; TENDON BONE INTERFACE INJURY; TENDON INJURY; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT DURATION; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; FRACTURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TENDON INJURIES; WOUND HEALING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879316966     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00222     Document Type: Article

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