TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental studies in chickens on the initial nutrition of tendon grafts
AU - Manske, Paul R.
AU - Lesker, Peggy A.
AU - Bridwell, Keith
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Department of Surgery. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo. Supported by National Institutes of Health grant No. I R01 AM 21879-01-AFY, Bethesda, Md. Presented in part at the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Ameri-can Society for Surgery of the Hand, Feb. 19-21, 1979, San Fran-cisco, Calif. Received for publication March 31, 1979. Reprint requests: Paul R. Manske, M.D., Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, 4960 Audubon Ave., SI. Louis, MO 63110.
PY - 1979
Y1 - 1979
N2 - A study of nutrition of various tendon graft preparations in adult chickens (up to 2 weeks after grafting), using tritiated proline and a trichloracetic acid extraction technique which separated the free and metabolized amino acid fractions, suggests that diffusion of nutrients is an important process in the initial nutrition of tendon grafts, that tendon grafts are metabolically active and viable structures, that adhesions which are frequently associated with tendon grafts do not appear to be essential to the nutrition of grafts, and that tendon grafts within fibrous pseudosheaths are nourished as effectively as grafts within synovial sheaths.
AB - A study of nutrition of various tendon graft preparations in adult chickens (up to 2 weeks after grafting), using tritiated proline and a trichloracetic acid extraction technique which separated the free and metabolized amino acid fractions, suggests that diffusion of nutrients is an important process in the initial nutrition of tendon grafts, that tendon grafts are metabolically active and viable structures, that adhesions which are frequently associated with tendon grafts do not appear to be essential to the nutrition of grafts, and that tendon grafts within fibrous pseudosheaths are nourished as effectively as grafts within synovial sheaths.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0363-5023(79)80010-6
DO - 10.1016/S0363-5023(79)80010-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 512314
AN - SCOPUS:0018720424
SN - 0363-5023
VL - 4
SP - 565
EP - 575
JO - Journal of Hand Surgery
JF - Journal of Hand Surgery
IS - 6
ER -