Extracellular vesicles from rat-bone-marrow mesenchymal stromal/stem cells improve tendon repair in rat Achilles tendon injury model in dose-dependent manner: A pilot study

• Clarissa Gissi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clarissa Gissi, Annalisa Radeghieri

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cells, U.O.C. of Immunohaematology and Transfusion Medicine, Santo Spirito Hospital, Pescara, Italy

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• Annalisa Radeghieri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clarissa Gissi, Annalisa Radeghieri

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine and CSGI, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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• Cristina Antonetti Lamorgese Passeri,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cells, U.O.C. of Immunohaematology and Transfusion Medicine, Santo Spirito Hospital, Pescara, Italy

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• Marialucia Gallorini,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, University G. d’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy

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• Lucia Calciano,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Medicina di Comunità, Sezione di Epidemiologia e Statistica Medica, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

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• Francesco Oliva,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Musculoskeletal Disorders, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

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• Francesca Veronesi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Preclinical and Surgical Studies, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

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• Andrea Zendrini,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine and CSGI, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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• Amelia Cataldi,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, University G. d’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy

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• Paolo Bergese,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine and CSGI, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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• Nicola Maffulli,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona, University of Salerno School of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Salerno, Italy, School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Faculty of Medicine, Keele University, Stoke on Trent, Keele, England, United Kingdom, Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Mile End Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom

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• Anna Concetta Berardi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: annacberardi@yahoo.it, annac.berardi@ausl.pe.it

  Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cells, U.O.C. of Immunohaematology and Transfusion Medicine, Santo Spirito Hospital, Pescara, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5078-6158

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