Expression of tenocyte markers in cultures derived from healthy and ruptured tendons in response to ESWT.

<p>Tenocytes derived from healthy (H) and ruptured (R) tendons were exposed to ESWT, incubated for 24 hours at 37°C before mRNA extraction. Unexposed cells were used as control. The molecular analysis reveals that the ESW treatment induces a significant decrease in the expression of Col I and Scx in cells from ruptured respect to healthy samples. No significant differences are observed for the other gene markers (Col III, Tnm and Tn-C) after ESWT in both groups of H and R cultures. Results reported in graph represent the mean values ±SE obtained from three independent experiments. Student T test was performed and significance level has been defined as described in materials and methods: *p>0.05 vs the corresponding untreated.