Novel spectroscopic technique for in situ monitoring of collagen fibril alignment in gels

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 648-655

  Kostyuk, Oksana ^a   Brown, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELASTIC SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; FIBROBLAST; GEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; WAVEFORM;

TRIXIS;

EID: 3042734367     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.103.038976     Document Type: Article

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