Growth factors and tendon healing

Medicine and Sport Science

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-64

  Oliva, Francesco ^a   Gatti, Stefano ^b   Porcellini, Giuseppe ^c   Forsyth, Nicholas R ^d   Maffulli, Nicola ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c D Cervesi Hospital   (Italy)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RAT; TENDON INJURY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RATS; TENDON INJURIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84926085137     PISSN: 02545020     EISSN: 16622812     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000328878     Document Type: Article

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