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  3. FGF2: a key regulator augmenting tendon-to-bone healing and cartilage repair

FGF2: a key regulator augmenting tendon-to-bone healing and cartilage repair

  • Regen Med. 2020 Sep;15(9):2129-2142. doi: 10.2217/rme-2019-0080.
Jun Zhang 1,  Ziming Liu 2,  Yuwan Li 3,  Qi You 1,  Jibin Yang 1,  Ying Jin 1,  Gang Zou 1,  Jingfeng Tang 1,  Zhen Ge 1,  Yi Liu 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Guizhou 563000, China.
  • 2 Peking University Institute of Sports Medicine, Beijing 100083, China.
  • 3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
PMID: 33201773 DOI: 10.2217/rme-2019-0080
Abstract

Ligament/tendon and cartilage injuries are clinically common diseases that perplex most clinicians. Because of the lack of blood vessels and nerves, their self-repairing abilities are rather poor. Therefore, surgeries are necessary and also widely used to treat ligament/tendon or cartilage injuries. However, after surgery, there are still many problems that affect healing. In recent years, it has been found that exogenous FGF2 plays an important role in the repair of ligament/tendon and cartilage injuries and exerts a synergistic effect with endogenous FGF2. Therefore, FGF2 can be used as a new type of biomolecule to accelerate tendon-to-bone healing and cartilage repair after injury.

Keywords

FGF; FGF2; FGFR; cartilage; cartilage injury; cartilage repair; ligament; tendon; tendon-to-bone healing; tissue engineering.

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