BMP-14 Gene Therapy Increases Tendon Tensile Strength in a Rat Model of Achilles Tendon Injury

To The Editor: We read with interest the article “BMP-14 Gene Therapy Increases Tendon Tensile Strength in a Rat Model of Achilles Tendon Injury” (2007;89:1315-20), by Bolt et al. The article appears to be important in demonstrating the feasibility of this new technique, but we question some aspects of the study. We reported on a very similar experiment two years ago1, but, surprisingly, it was not cited in the article. In our study, we found some different results. As reported in 1992 and …