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Scarless Regenerative Tendon Healing

Aim 1 (completed): Wounds were created in tendons of 5 ewes and their fetuses. We hypothesized that injured fetal tendons would heal regeneratively, whereas adult tendons would heal reparatively with scar formation. Our gross observations and histological analyses supported this.


Wounded adult tendon

Wounded fetal tendon

Wounded fetal tendon (H&E)

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