Journal of Cytokine Biology
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Andrea M Spiker

Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

Biography

Andrea M. Spiker, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and a dual fellowship trained, Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specializes in Sports Medicine and Hip Preservation. She is team physician for UW Badger Athletics and provides orthopedic coverage for the UW Women’s Basketball, Men’s and Women’s Soccer teams. Her clinical interests are in the non-operative and operative treatment of all sports and athletic injuries of the hip and knee, with additional expertise in hip arthroscopy, 

Publications

Achilles Tendons from T-Lymphocyte Deficient Mice Exhibit Improved Healing.

Purpose/Aim of Study: Tendon healing involves a complex, coordinated series of events that, despite new therapies to improve healing, results in scar. The “nude” T-lymphocyte deficient model is a genetic strain exhibiting a loss of function in the Foxn1 gene. Nude mice cannot generate mature T-lymphocytes, are unable to mount many types... Read More»

Connie S Chamberlain, Anna EB Clements, Ugeun Choi, Amy Ticknor BS, Geoffrey S Baer, Matthew A Halanski and Ray Vanderby

: J Cytokine Biol

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