Mechanical properties of collagen fascicles from stress-shielded patellar tendons in the rabbit

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 418-425

  Yamamoto, Ei ^a   Hayashi, Kozaburo ^b   Yamamoto, Noritaka ^c  

^a Fac Biol Oriented Sci T   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomechanical properties; Collagen fascicle; Patellar tendon; Stress shielding

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH; VISCOELASTICITY;

STRESS SHIELDING;

BIOMECHANICS;

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; KNEE; LIGAMENT; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TENDON; TENSILE STRENGTH; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; PATELLA; RABBITS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0032943180     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(99)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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