Creating an Animal Model of Tendinopathy by Inducing Chondrogenic Differentiation with Kartogenin.

Previous animal studies have shown that long term rat treadmill running induces over-use tendinopathy, which manifests as proteoglycan accumulation and chondrocytes-like cells within the affected tendons. Creating this animal model of tendinopathy by long term treadmill running is however time-consu...

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Main Authors: Ting Yuan, Jianying Zhang, Guangyi Zhao, Yiqin Zhou, Chang-Qing Zhang, James H-C Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4744046?pdf=render