Collagen fibril surface: TMAFM, FEG-SEM and freeze-etching observations

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-93

  Raspanti, Mario ^a,c   Alessandrini, Andrea ^b   Gobbi, Pietro ^a   Ruggeri, Alessandro ^a  

^a Institute of Human Anatomy   (Italy)

^b Department of Physics   (Italy)

^c Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extracellular matrix; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

AFM; COLLAGEN FIBRILS; DEHYDRATION PROCEDURE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FEG-SEM; FREEZE-ETCHING; RAT TAIL TENDON; TAPPING MODES; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

DEHYDRATION;

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FREEZE ETCHING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TAIL; TENDON;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029812707     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19960901)35:1<87::AID-JEMT8>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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