Novel animal model for Achilles tendinopathy: Controlled experimental study of serial injections of collagenase in rabbits

• Cesar de Cesar Netto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cesar de Cesar Netto, Alexandre Leme Godoy-Santos, Lew Charles Schon, Olavo Pires de Camargo, Túlio Diniz Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cesardecesarnetto@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Department of Orthopaedics, Foot and Ankle Surgery, Medstar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics, Foot and Ankle Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), New York, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6037-0685

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• Alexandre Leme Godoy-Santos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cesar de Cesar Netto, Alexandre Leme Godoy-Santos, Lew Charles Schon, Olavo Pires de Camargo, Túlio Diniz Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Pedro Augusto Pontin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Renato Jose Mendonça Natalino ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Cesar Augusto Martins Pereira ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Francisco Diego de Oliveira Lima ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Lucas Furtado da Fonseca ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Foot and Ankle Surgery, Medstar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jackson Rucker Staggers ,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Leonardo Muntada Cavinatto ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Lew Charles Schon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cesar de Cesar Netto, Alexandre Leme Godoy-Santos, Lew Charles Schon, Olavo Pires de Camargo, Túlio Diniz Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Foot and Ankle Surgery, Medstar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Olavo Pires de Camargo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cesar de Cesar Netto, Alexandre Leme Godoy-Santos, Lew Charles Schon, Olavo Pires de Camargo, Túlio Diniz Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Túlio Diniz Fernandes

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cesar de Cesar Netto, Alexandre Leme Godoy-Santos, Lew Charles Schon, Olavo Pires de Camargo, Túlio Diniz Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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