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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Klatte-Schulz F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4490489 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klatte-Schulz Franka F Aleyt Thomas T Pauly Stephan S Geißler Sven S Gerhardt Christian C Scheibel Markus M Wildemann Britt B
International journal of molecular sciences 20150609 6
An imbalance between matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) and the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteases (TIMPs) may have a negative impact on the healing of rotator cuff tears. The aim of the project was to assess a possible relationship between clinical and radiographic characteristics of patients such as the age, sex, as well as the degenerative status of the tendon and the MMPs and TIMPs in their tenocyte-like cells (TLCs). TLCs were isolated from ruptured supraspinatus tendons and quantitative Rea ...[more]