Mechano-electrochemical properties of articular cartilage: Their inhomogeneities and anisotropies

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 175-209

  Mow, Van C ^a   Guo, X Edward ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate modulus; Cartilage; Fixed charges; Inhomogeneity; Theoretical models

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; JOINT DEGENERATION; MACROMOLECULE; MECHANICAL STRESS; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TECHNIQUE; TENSILE STRENGTH; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANISOTROPY; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POROSITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0036403676     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.4.110701.120309     Document Type: Review

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