Junki Kawakami, Satoshi Hisanaga, Yuki Yoshimoto, Tomoji Mashimo, Takehito Kaneko, Naoto Yoshimura, Masaki Shimada, Makoto Tateyama, Hideto Matsunaga, Yuto Shibata, Shuntaro Tanimura, Kosei Takata, Takahiro Arima, Kazuya Maeda, Yuko Fukuma, Masaru Uragami, Katsumasa Ideo, Kazuki Sugimoto, Ryuji Yonemitsu, Kozo Matsushita, Masaki Yugami, Yusuke Uehara, Takayuki Nakamura, Takuya Tokunaga, Tatsuki Karasugi, Takanao Sueyoshi, Chisa Shukunami, Nobukazu Okamoto, Tetsuro Masuda, Takeshi Miyamoto
When ruptured, ligaments and tendons have limited self-repair capacity and rarely heal spontaneously. In the knee, the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) often ruptures during sports activities, causing functional impairment and requiring surgery using tendon grafts. Patients with insufficient time to recover before resuming sports risk re-injury. To develop more effective treatment, it is necessary to define mechanisms underlying ligament repair. For this, animal models can be useful, but mice are too small to create an ACL reconstruction model...
2023: PloS One