Lentiviral-Encoded shRNA Silencing of Proteoglycan Decorin Enhances Tendon Repair and Regeneration within a Rat Model
Injured tendons often heal with scar tissue formation, resulting in uniformly smaller collagen fibrils and poor mechanical properties. The small leucine-rich proteoglycan decorin is well known to regulate fusion of collagen fibrils. Rat patellar tendon cells were transfected with lentiviral-encoded...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2013-09-01
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Series: | Cell Transplantation |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3727/096368912X661292 |