AFM observation of subfibrillar and fragmental structure of collagen from human lumbar intervertebral discs

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 327-328

  Gu, Ning ^b   Wei, Qihe ^b   Pan, Wei ^b   Lu, Zuhong ^b   Wei, Yu ^b   Zhu, Tongyin ^a   Shen, Jiawei ^a   Tong, Mingqing ^a   Zhou, Shifang ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Annulus fibrosus; Atomic force microscope (AFM); Collagen; Lumbar intervertebral disc; Nucleus pulposus

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ANNULUS FIBROSUS; ATOMIC FORCE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE; COLLAGEN MONOMERS; HUMAN COLLAGENS; LUMBAR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; OLDER PEOPLE; TYPE II COLLAGENS; YOUNG PEOPLES;

COLLAGEN;

EID: 20944451086     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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