Anabolic steroids can facilitate surgical repair improvements
by admin ~ January 26th, 2010.When it comes to improving surgical repair of massive or recurrent tears of the shoulder’s rotator cuff tendons, anabolic steroid treatment can be highly effective. This finding was revealed by a research from the UNC’s School of Medicine.
The study, which appeared in an issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, was led by Dr. Spero Karas, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery in UNC’s School of Medicine.
From News-Medical.Net:
Anabolic steroids benefit millions of people a year, said Karas, including those with deficiencies in sex hormones and burn victims who need to build up their metabolism to repair musculoskeletal tissue. They also are FDA-approved for treating anemia for their ability to help the body rebuild blood.
As it’s widely known that anabolic steroids can build muscle mass and strength, Karas said he thought these properties might apply to shoulder tissue and that Banes‘ bioartificial tendon might provide the appropriate model for testing.
“In this new study, supraspinatus tendon cells were harvested from my patients during rotator cuff surgery, isolated and then sent to Albert’s lab,” Karas said. “The cells were then grown in his culture media to coalesce and form this experimental tendon model, the bioartificial tendon.”
It was remarked by Karas that when bioartificial tendon matrices were treated with anabolic steroids and then mechanical load or strain, there were considerable enhancements in the biomechanical properties
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