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SUBMITTER: Costa-Almeida R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594050 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Costa-Almeida Raquel R Domingues Rui M A RMA Fallahi Afsoon A Avci Huseyin H Yazdi Iman K IK Akbari Mohsen M Reis Rui L RL Tamayol Ali A Gomes Manuela E ME Khademhosseini Ali A
Journal of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine 20171206 4
Tendons have limited regenerative capacity due to their low cellularity and hypovascular nature, which results in poor clinical outcomes of presently used therapies. As tendon injuries are often observed in active adults, it poses an increasing socio-economic burden on healthcare systems. Currently, suture threads are used during surgical repair to anchor the tissue graft or to connect injured ends. Here, we created composite suture threads coated with a layer of cell-laden hydrogel that can be ...[more]