Pregnancy affects cellular activity, but not tissue mechanical properties, in the healing rabbit medial collateral ligament.

Hart, D A; Reno, C; Frank, C B; Shrive, N G

Hart, D A; Reno, C; Frank, C B; Shrive, N G.

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Hart DA; McCaig Centre for Joint Injury and Arthritis Research, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. hardt@acs.ucalgary.ca

J Orthop Res ; 18(3): 462-71, 2000 May.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10937635

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Medial Collateral Ligament, Knee/physiology; Pregnancy, Animal/physiology; Animals; Biomechanical Phenomena; Female; Matrix Metalloproteinases/genetics; Nitric Oxide Synthase/genetics; Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; Pregnancy; RNA, Messenger/analysis; Rabbits; Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics; Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1/genetics; Wound Healing

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Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pregnancy, Animal / Medial Collateral Ligament, Knee Type of study: Prognostic_studies Limits: Animals / Pregnancy Language: En Year: 2000 Type: Article

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