Current tissue engineering strategies in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1614-1624

  Leong, Natalie L ^a   Petrigliano, Frank A ^a   McAllister, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior cruciate ligament; growth factor; review; scaffold; tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; REVIEWS; SCAFFOLDS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ACL RECONSTRUCTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR-CRUCIATE-LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMATERIAL SCAFFOLDS; CELL SOURCES; GROWTH FACTOR; MECHANICAL STIMULUS;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

ALGINIC ACID; CHITOSAN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; ELASTIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCINE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HYALURONIC ACID; PALLADIUM; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYDIOXANONE; POLYGLACTIN; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID; PROSTAGLANDIN A; SILK; SOMATOMEDIN; TENASCIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; BIOMATERIAL; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; DEGRADATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBROBLAST; FREEZE DRYING; HYDROPHILICITY; LIGAMENT PROSTHESIS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHASE SEPARATION; POROSITY; REVIEW; SUTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84897113677     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.34820     Document Type: Review

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