Insights into tendon damage from a diabetic rat model

Thesis

Tendinopathy is one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries in humans (Walden et al., 2017). It is also, due to the essential role that tendons play in everyday movement and locomotion, one of the most impactful. The need to prevent, mitigate and treat its occurrence is thus clear although, in order for this possibility to exist, greater insight is first needed into the mechanistic causes of tendon damage and the structural responses to it. While it is known that repeated overloading a...

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Authors: Nicholls, R

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-x5wxxrdbj
• Type of award: MSc by Research
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Tendinopathy; Mechanical testing; Fatigue damage; Streptozotocin; Tendon damage
• Subjects: Diabetes; Tendinopathy