Tendon healing: an overview of physiology, biology, and pathology of tendon healing and systematic review of state of the art in tendon bioengineering

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2097-2105

  Müller, Sebastian A ^a   Todorov, Atanas ^a   Heisterbach, Patricia E ^a   Martin, Ivan ^a   Majewski, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; Growth factor; Stem cell; Tendon; Tendon healing

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; CYTOKINE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUPTURE; TENDINOPATHY; TENDON INJURIES; WOUND HEALING;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOENGINEERING; CELL- AND TISSUE-BASED THERAPY; COLLAGEN; CYTOKINES; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RUPTURE; TENDINOPATHY; TENDON INJURIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84935863638     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-013-2680-z     Document Type: Review

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