Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, (Uttarakhand).
*Corresponding author.
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Freeze-dried and fresh tendon allografts were histologically evaluated for their regenerative property in deep digital flexor tendon defects in buffalo calves. Study was performed on 18 male buffalo calves, 18–24 months of age divided equally in two groups, A and B. In group A freeze-dried and in group B fresh tendon allografts were used to bridge one centimeter long experimentally created gap in the deep digital flexor tendon of the left foreleg. Comparatively more cellular reaction in group B and early maturation of graft in group A was observed on 45th post-transplantation day. The study revealed faster healing of tendon defect repaired with freeze-dried allograft than with fresh allograft.
Buffalo calves, deep digital flexor tendon, freeze-dried allograft, fresh allograft
