A novel silk-TCP-PEEK construct for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: An off-the shelf alternative to a bone-tendon-bone autograft

Biofabrication

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Li, Xiang ^a,b   He, Jiankang ^c   Bian, Weiguo ^d   Li, Zheng ^d   Li, Dichen ^c   Snedeker, Jess G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d First Hosp of Xi'an Jiaotong Univ   (China)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; ligament tissue engineering; silk TCP PEEK scaffold

Indexed keywords

ACL RECONSTRUCTION; ANTERIOR-CRUCIATE-LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMECHANICAL TESTS; HISTOLOGICAL FEATURES; HISTOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; LIGAMENT TISSUE ENGINEERING; PHYSIOLOGICAL LOADS; TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATES;

BONE; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SILK;

TENDONS;

BIOMATERIAL; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; KETONE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLYETHERETHERKETONE; SILK; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BOMBYX; BONE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; SWINE; TENDON;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; AUTOGRAFTS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BOMBYX; BONE AND BONES; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; HUMANS; KETONES; MALE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SILK; SWINE; TENDONS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84896789945     PISSN: 17585082     EISSN: 17585090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1758-5082/6/1/015010     Document Type: Article

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