Tendon injuries often result in significant pain and disability and impose severe clinical and
financial burdens on our society. Despite considerable achievements in the field of …

Drug delivery using suitable polymeric devices has gathered momentum in the recent years
due to their remarkable properties. The versatility of polymeric materials makes them reliable …

Tendon healing follows a complex series of coordinated events, which ultimately produces a
mechanically inferior tissue more scar-like than native tendon. More regenerative healing …

Medical textiles is an emerging specialist field within the textile industry showing substantial
growth in the amount of research attention it has attracted over the past ten years and it is …

Cytokine manipulation has been widely used to bolster innate healing mechanisms in an
array of modern therapeutics. While other anatomical locations have a more definitive …

Tendon injuries are common diseases. The healing capacity of tendon is limited due to its
special composition of extra-cellular matrix and hypocellularity and hypovascularity. The …

Achilles tendon (AT) injury is one of the most common tendon injuries, especially in athletes,
the elderly, and working-age people. In AT injury, the biomechanical properties of the …

Adult tissue stem cells have shown promise for the treatment of debilitating tendon injuries.
However, few comparisons of stem cells from different tissue sources have been made to …

Tendon disorders, which are commonly presented in the clinical setting, disrupt the patients'
normal work and life routines, and they damage the careers of athletes. However, there is …

Tendon tissue engineering based on stem cell differentiation has attracted a great deal of
attention in recent years. Previous studies have examined the effect of cell-imprinted …