Tendon and ligament regeneration and repair: clinical relevance and developmental paradigm.
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...To further explore biological aspects of tendon and ligament development and repair we refer readers to an article by Yang and co-authors entitled: Tendon and ligament regeneration and repair: clinical relevance and developmental paradigm (Birth Defects Research, 2013) (Yang et al. 2013)....
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...Tendon injury stimulates the production of a variety of growth factors at multiple stages in the healing process [40,42] leading to increased cellularity and tissue volume [47]....
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...tissues connecting muscle to bone, and bone to bone, respectively [237]....
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...For instance, experiments on rodents (mice, rats) and rabbits form the basis of much of our controlled experimental knowledge on healing response to injury, yet heal in an accelerated manner that deviates from humans [25,26]....
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...Compared to BMSCs, ASCs are (1) harvested by less invasive procedures, (2) available in greater quantities, and (3) demonstrate similar potential to differentiate along multiple mesenchymal lineages (Gimble et al., 2007)....
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...Despite advances in surgical techniques and in the understanding of shoulder pathology, chronic tears fail to heal in 20-95% of cases (Derwin et al., 2010; Galatz et al., 2004)....
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...is still in its infancy, recent advances in controlled delivery suggest the possibility of implementing these scaffolds in the near future (Richardson et al., 2001; Santo et al., 2013)....
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...P A A uthor M anuscript is still in its infancy, recent advances in controlled delivery suggest the possibility of implementing these scaffolds in the near future (Richardson et al., 2001; Santo et al., 2013)....
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...Mature fibrillar collagens generated from this modification spontaneously self-assemble into cross-striated fibrils in an entropy-driven manner, yielding a 67 nm repeat that characterizes the axial periodicity of collagen fibrils (Kadler et al., 1996)....
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...Degenerative tendinopathy often precedes acute ruptures, with the former considered a failed healing response that is characterized by hypervascularity, mucoid degeneration, ectopic bone and cartilage nodules, and disorganized extracellular matrix (Kannus and Jozsa, 1991; Riley, 2008)....
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