Amplification of Mitochondrial Activity in the Healing Response Following Rotator Cuff Tendon Injury.
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SUBMITTER: Thankam FG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6242817 | biostudies-other | 2018 Nov
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Amplification of Mitochondrial Activity in the Healing Response Following Rotator Cuff Tendon Injury.
Thankam Finosh G FG Chandra Isaiah S IS Kovilam Anuradha N AN Diaz Connor G CG Volberding Benjamin T BT Dilisio Matthew F MF Radwan Mohamed M MM Gross R Michael RM Agrawal Devendra K DK
Scientific reports 20181119 1
Mitochondrial function following rotator cuff tendon injury (RCI) influences the tendon healing. We examined the mitochondrial morphology and function under hypoxia in the shoulder tendon tissue from surgically-induced tenotomy-RCI rat model and cultured swine tenocytes. The tendon tissue was collected post-injury on 3-5 (Group-A), 10-12 (Group-B), and 22-24 (Group-C), days and the corresponding contralateral tendons were used as control for each group. There was higher protein expression of cit ...[more]
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