Bimodal collagen fibril diameter distributions direct age-related variations in tendon resilience and resistance to rupture

• Main Authors: Holmes, D. F., Lu, Y., Purslow, P. P., Goh, K. L., Kadler, K. E., Wess, T. J., Béchet, Daniel
• 其他作者: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2013
• 主題: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103968; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17193
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Scaling relationships have been formulated to investigate the influence of collagen fibril diameter (D) on age-related variations in the strain energy density of tendon. Transmission electron microscopy was used to quantify D in tail tendon from 1.7- to 35.3-mo-old (C57BL/6) male mice. Frequency his...