Collagen fibrillogenesis in situ: Fibril segments become long fibrils as the developing tendon matures

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 291-298

  Birk, David E ^a   Zycband, Emanuel I ^a   Woodruff, Samantha ^a   Winkelmann, Donald A ^b   Trelstad, Robert L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

collagen fibril; development; fibril growth; fibrillogenesis; tendon morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRENGTH; TENDON;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; COLLAGEN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TENDONS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031042279     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199703)208:3<291::AID-AJA1>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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