A high-glucose diet affects Achilles tendon healing in rats

Abstract Chronic and acute tendinopathies are difficult to treat and tendon healing is generally a very slow and incomplete process and our general understanding of tendon biology and regeneration lags behind that of muscle or bone. Although still largely unexplored, several studies suggest a positi...

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Main Authors: Stefanie Korntner, Nadja Kunkel, Christine Lehner, Renate Gehwolf, Andrea Wagner, Peter Augat, Daniel Stephan, Verena Heu, Hans-Christian Bauer, Andreas Traweger, Herbert Tempfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00700-z