Scx-transduced tendon-derived stem cells (TDSCs) promoted better tendon repair compared to mock-transduced cells in a rat patellar tendon window injury model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Tan, Chunlai ^a   Lui, Pauline Po Yee ^b   Lee, Yuk Wa ^a   Wong, Yin Mei ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^b HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; COLLAGEN; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN 583; PHOTOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; SCX PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATELLA TENDON; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCX GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TENDON DERIVED STEM CELL; TENDON INJURY; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; VIVACT IMAGING; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; PATELLA LIGAMENT; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TENDON; TENDON INJURIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; COLLAGEN; DNA PRIMERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901316063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097453     Document Type: Article

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