title: Functional attachment of soft tissues to bone: development, healing, and tissue engineering.
abstract: Connective tissues such as tendons or ligaments attach to bone across a multitissue interface with spatial gradients in composition, structure, and mechanical properties. These gradients minimize stress concentrations and mediate load transfer between the soft and hard tissues. Given the high incidence of tendon and ligament injuries and the lack of integrative solutions for their repair, interface regeneration remains a significant clinical challenge. This review begins with a description of the developmental processes and the resultant structure-function relationships that translate into the functional grading necessary for stress transfer between soft tissue and bone. It then discusses the interface healing response, with a focus on the influence of mechanical loading and the role of cell-cell interactions. The review continues with a description of current efforts in interface tissue engineering, highlighting key strategies for the regeneration of the soft tissue-to-bone interface, and concludes with a summary of challenges and future directions.
authors: Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York, NY 10027, USA. hhlu@columbia.edu
authors: Helen H
authors: HH
authors: Lu
authors: Stavros
authors: S
authors: Thomopoulos
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D001846:Bone Development / Q000502:physiology*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology*; D002450:Cell Communication; D006801:Humans; D008022:Ligaments / Q000473:pathology; D012038:Regeneration; D044968:Regenerative Medicine / Q000379:methods; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013710:Tendons / Q000473:pathology; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D014945:Wound Healing
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials
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