Allergy-induced systemic inflammation impairs tendon quality
Christine Lehner, Gabriel Spitzer, Patrick Benjamin Langthaler, Dominika Jakubecova, Barbara Klein, Nadja Weißenbacher, Andrea Wagner, Renate Gehwolf, Eugen Trinka, Bernhard Iglseder, Bernhard Paulweber, Ludwig Aigner, Sébastien Couillard‐Després, Richard Weiss, Herbert Tempfer, Andreas Traweger
This study investigates how allergy-induced systemic inflammation affects tendon quality and finds that it reduces tendon elasticity and alters matrix composition, with supporting epidemiological evidence linking allergies to increased tendinopathy risk.
EBioMedicine · Jan 1, 2022Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology