Partial-width injuries of the rat rotator cuff heal with fibrosis.

ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:Identify the healing outcomes following a partial-width, full-thickness injury to the rotator cuff tendon-bone attachment and establish if the adult attachment can regenerate the morphology of the healthy attachment. HYPOTHESIS:We hypothesized that a partial-width injury to the attachment would heal via fibrosis and bone remodeling, resulting in increased cellularity and extra-cellular matrix deposition, reduced bone volume (BV), osteoclast presence, and decreased collagen organization compared to shams. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A partial-width injury was made using a biopsy punch at the center one-third of the rat infraspinatus attachment. Contralateral limbs underwent a sham operation. Rats were sacrificed at 3 and 8 weeks after injury for analyses. Analyses performed at each time p

SUBMITTER: Lemmon EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324170 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature