Application of Different Biomaterials in Achilles Tendon Repair for Exercise Injury

Abstract:

The rupture of Achilles tendon is hard to self-healing and repair and it is easily left pain and dysfunction. For a long time, the treatment of Achilles tendon defect by many scholars conducted a lot of research, from the tendon autograft, allograft tendon transplantation to the artificial tendon transplantation, tissue engineering tendon transplantation. Practice has proved that these methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. Although the research and application of scaffold materials for tendon tissue engineering has achieved some success, but the application materials or the presence of biocompatibility, degradation problems or have poor mechanical properties, machining molding defects, there is still a big gap between the ideal scaffold materials. This study evaluated the different biological materials in the repair of Achilles tendon injury in effect, provide a theoretical reference for the key to construct tissue engineered tendon is to find appropriate scaffold materials for tendon cell adhesion, growth and functional differentiation.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 886)
• Pages: 329-332
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.886.329
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Na Zhao*, Wen Chen, Tao Yan
• Keywords: Achilles Tendon Repair, Biomaterial, Exercise Injury

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