%0 Journal Article
%T Short and long terms healing of the experimentally transverse sectioned tendon in rabbits
%A Ahmad Oryan
%A Ali Moshiri
%A Abdul-Hamid Meimandi-Parizi
%J Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy & Technology
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1758-2555-4-14
%X Forty white New Zealand mature female rabbits were randomly divided into two equal groups of 28 and 84£¿DPI After tenotomy and surgical repair of the left SDFT, the injured legs were casted for 14£¿days. The weight of the animals, tendon diameter, and clinical, radiographic and ultrasonographic evaluations were conducted at weekly intervals. The animals were euthanized on 28 and 84£¿DPI and the tendons were evaluated for histopathological, ultrastructural, biomechanical and percentage dry weight parameters.Although the clinical, ultrastructural, morphological and biomechanical properties of the injured tendons on day 84 showed a significant improvement compared to those of the 28 DPI, these parameters were still significantly inferior to their normal contra-lateral tendons.This study showed that tendon healing is very slow and at 84£¿days post-injury the morphological and biomechanical parameters were still inferior to the normal tendons and many collagen fibrils still had the same diameter as those seen at 28 DPI.
%K Tendon healing
%K Rabbit
%K Surgical repair
%K Ultrastructure
%K Biomechanics
%U http://www.smarttjournal.com/content/4/1/14/abstract