Lentiviral-encoded shRNA silencing of proteoglycan decorin enhances tendon repair and regeneration within a rat model

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1507-1517

  Lu, Ping ^a,b,c   Zhang, Guo Rong ^a,b,d   Cai, You Zhi ^a,b,c   Heng, Boon Chin ^e   Ren, Hao ^a,b,c   Wang, Lin Lin ^a,b,c   Ji, Junfeng ^b,c   Zou, Xiao Hui ^b,c   Ouyang, Hong Wei ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine   (China)

^d Changchun Medical College   (China)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decorin; Engineered tendon; Lentivirus; Patellar tendon; Short hairpin RNA (shRNA)

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; DECORIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; PROTEOGLYCAN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LENTIVIRINAE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN; DECORIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; LENTIVIRUS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGENERATION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84883537501     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368912X661292     Document Type: Article

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