Birefringence Measurement of Rapid Structural Changes during Collagen Denaturation

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 846-851

  Sankaran, Vanitha ^a   Walsh Jr , Joseph T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS; MUS;

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LASER; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; COLLAGEN; KINETICS; LASERS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032254625     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1998.tb05294.x     Document Type: Article

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