“…Besides tenocytes, oxidative stress can also reduce the viability, self-renewal and multi-lineage differentiation potential of TDSCs, thereby reducing their regenerative and tenogenic function. In this regard, H 2 O 2 was reported to impair colony formation, stemness marker expression, and differentiation capacity as well as showing suppressed cell migration, cell viability, apoptosis, and proliferation of TDSCs [ 28 , 29 , 30 ]. In a rat patellar tendon window injury model, subcutaneous injection of H 2 O 2 over the tendon was demonstrated to induce more tendon swelling, pain-associated gait asymmetry, disorganized fibrous tissue formation and hypoechogenic areas in tendon tissue, compared to the saline-treated group [ 31 ].…”