The treatment of tendon injury / 医学研究生学报

Multitudinous therapeutic options of tendon damage have been carried out , and in this paper , we will introduce several methods including suture , tendon transplantion , growth factors , stem cells and genes , alone or in combination .The classic su-ture methods, such as MK and K+R methods, have been already mature , and the new suture bridge can also present good strength and biological property.Recent years, the freezing method improves the immunoreaction in tendon transplantion .Furthermore, using the growth factors and stem cells alone or combined can improve the repair of tendon .The genes therapy can upregulate the growth factors to repair the injured tendon by transfecting adenovirus into the tissues of animals .